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TIL that Winamp took their slogan “It really whips the llama’s ass!” from a song by an infamous, schizophrenic outsider-musician and visual artist named Wesley Willis.

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41DJ TIL: A study by the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine using a randomized double-blind trial with sensory evaluation using discrimination testing found that freezing raw fish did not ruin sushi’s taste.
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OGEL1 TIL when Tim Berners-Lee proposed what later became the WWW, his superior noted it as „vague but exciting“