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TIL Icelandic pop star Björk had a goth avant-garde noise band called KUKL in the 80’s signed to Crass Records and released her first solo album at 11 years old

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JPE8 TIL Venus spins the opposite direction as the other planets in our solar system and may have been a drifting planet we “adopted”.
dDx8E TIL Dogs and other animals can have neurological disorders.
rmbx TIL That for the Super Bowl Final they hire a cameraman to run onto the pitch to shoot the jingle “I’m going to Disney World!” of whoever Disney paid to say it if they win. Millions of dollars ride on his shoulders.
woKoW TIL that Bobby Leach, the second ever man to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel, died a few years later after slipping on an orange peel and getting a wound on his leg that would soon become Gangrenous. Although the leg was soon amputated, he died two months later due to complications.
6EYDl TIL about the Kearny fallout meter, designed such that someone with a normal mechanical ability would be able to construct it before or during a nuclear attack, using common household items