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TIL that one of the first albums to have a parental advisory sticker was Frank Zappa’s ‘Jazz From Hell’ in 1986. The album is completely instrumental.

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VBQo8 TIL that Roald Dahl wrote a short story that predicted story-writing machines. In it, most authors end up signing contracts to let the machines write stories in their names, while a handful of authors struggle on. He ends by saying, “Give us strength, Oh Lord, to let our children starve.”
5VY0p TIL Voyager 2 was launched 16 days BEFORE Voyager 1 in 1977
xyOg TIL that only around 35% of Americans have passports. The figure is an all-time high.
bjyp TIL that last names have a natural tendency to go extinct over time-and that China experiences this with 96% of the population sharing only 200 surnames.
eppVk TIL of the format called MovieCD (not to be confused with VideoCD or CD-Video) which was a way for full-length videos to be played on 16-Bit Windows PCs that couldn’t handle the MPEG codec.