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TIL that in 2013 Kanye West's "Yeezus" was voted both "Most Overrated Album" and "Most Underrated Album" by Pitchfork readers.

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VMGZD TIL Tennessee Fainting, is a breed of Goat that faints due to a condition called myotonia congenita, which is hereditary. Myotonia Congenita is a recessive gene, goats that are crossbred with other breeds typically do not display fainting behaviors.
GYRrQ TIL 1-800-COLLECT was so popular in the 90s that AT&T launched a competing service, 1-800-Operator. However AT&T later discovered many people misspell Operator with 'er' instead of 'or' at the end, and that unfortunately, 1-800-COLLECT owned the misspelled number and had been taking their customers.
4Xbea TIL about the Implicit Association Test (IAT). It is a test developed in 1998 to assess people's implicit bias in things such as race and sex. I've linked the Harvard version of the test if you want to give it a go.
v1aD8 TIL that upon hearing that kids were more likely to eat spinach and broccoli that had been wrapped up like McDonalds, Anthony Bourdain hatched a plan to wrap disgusting foods up as McDonalds for his daughter, to make sure she grew to hate the fast food chain.
eB1b TIL that early Renaissance artists were electrified when a young Roman fell through a cleft in a hill and rediscovered Nero’s Golden House. Subsequent tourists to the spot include Michelangelo, Raphael, Casanova, and the Marquis de Sade, all of whom left graffiti in the ruins.