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TIL : Pink Floyd played a concert in 1971 in which the music was so loud that it killed fish in a nearby pond.

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16MyW TIL that the word "robot" was first used in a play titled "R.U.R.," written by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1920. The term comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "forced labor" or "drudgery."
9Ynl7 Today I learned that Barclays, Cadbury, Greenpeace, Lloyd's Bank, Nike, Oxfam, Rowntree's and Sony were all founded by Quakers.
R1Z4 TIL Some of the male background characters in in ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ can be seen wearing skirts. This was explained as “a logical development, given the total equality of the sexes presumed to exist in the 24th century.”
6Ewgl TIL Best Buy only sells music on vinyl, apparently.
NXZMJ TIL Kelly, a dolphin, was rewarded with fish by her trainers for bringing them litter and dead gulls to clean her pool. She began hiding fish under a rock in her pool and used them to lure gulls, which she then brought to her trainers to receive more fish. She even taught her calf the same strategy.