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TIL that the band Jet’s second album was rated a 0.0 out of 10 by Pitchfork magazine and in lieu of writing a review, a YouTube video of a monkey urinating into his own mouth was put up on their site.

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pjAe TIL in 1963, at the height of the Cold War, the US military launched a ring of 480million needles into orbit around the earth. It was hoped they would more reliably bounce radio signals back to earth in case the Soviets cut through undersea cables. Multiple clumps of these needles are still up there
nWx6P TIL that Chick-fil-A started in 1961, after founder S. Truett Cathy found a fryer that cooked chicken as quickly as a fast food burger. Chick-fil-A licensed the sandwich to 50 restaurants, including Waffle House, until 1967, when the first standalone Chick-fil-A was opened.
15bD TIL There is a dorm at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) that is clothing-optional. [NSFW]
0NJM TIL - Before Orbitz.com was a travel site it was the site of a soft drink that had balls of jelly suspended in it.
e0NN5 TIL early on in the Space Shuttle program, flights had a 1 in 9 chance of ending in a catastrophic failure based on recent risk analysis