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TIL that the They Might Be Giants album Apollo 18 features a song that made use of the shuffle feature on CD players. Made of 21 separate tracks, you get a new sonic experience every time it is played.

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04o1 TIL Pat Robertson and several others who incorrectly predicted various dates for the end of world were jointly awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for “teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations”
JJv4 TIL Bill Watterson, the author of the cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbs, refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities.
ZpXp TIL that overweight and obese people now outnumber starving and malnourished people.
4XZbR TIL about teledildonics. It's where you hook up a sex toy to the internet so you can play with friends over great distances.
Bbwb TIL White-nose syndrome is a disease that severely threatens the U.S. bat population and has killed more than 5.7 million bats