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TIL Journey, one of the most-heard rock groups in history, started life as a Bay Area jazz fusion band

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MeAk7 TIL in 2016, residents of Barrow, Alaska voted to change the name of the city back to its original Inupiaq name, Utqiaġvik
MwEa TIL that there are people who believe our birth certificates are actually bonds for money deposited in our names at birth, and these bonds are traded like stocks on the NYSE.
j6Een TIL: A southern France firefighters' department statistic attributes 16% of local bushfires to cigarette litter thrown out of moving vehicles
0d0RL TIL that experiments conducted by academic specialists in animal communication "suggest that slow blink sequences may function as a form of positive emotional communication between cats and humans."
vRJr TIL that in addition to the “hidden” Gamecube start up sound (the one you can hear by holding ‘Z’ on the first controller as the console boots), there is a third start up sound that can be heard by holding 'Z’ on all four controllers at boot.