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TIL The band Oasis, after having technical difficulties at a large gig, issued refund checks with the bands branding on hoping fans would keep them as collectibles instead of cashing them in; it worked

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vPGRK TIL the longest word in the English dictionary: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Defined as: it as "a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust"
a89n0 TIL hotter weather increases both suicide rates and the use of depressive language on social media.
yEWp TIL that ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ was renamed 'The Man Worth Millions’ when airing on Israeli TV because of the association between “six million” and the Holocaust
yVo0X TIL I learned that a News Station fell to a prank, reporting the names of fake flight crews in relation to Asiana Airlines Flight 214, i.e. "Captain Sum Ting Wong", "Wi Tu Lo", "Ho Lee Fuk", and "Bang Ding Ow".
wL687 TIL that various ideas such as radioactive cats and spiky landscapes have been proposed for the Department of Energy to deter future civilization from interfering with nuclear waste burial sites.