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TIL that the intro to 1984 song “People Are People” by Depeche Mode was created by taking kitchen utensils, such as pots and pans, throwing them down the stairs, recording the sounds, and then looping the sounds.

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NXPbJ TIL In order to prepare for his work "The Raft of the Medusa" T.Géricault obsessively studied dead bodies in order to depict them accurately. He observed dying patients at a hospital and brought severed limbs into his art studio, including a severed head he spend two weeks observing
V7KB TIL Project MARAUDER, a coaxial plasma railgun powered by the SHIVA STAR capacitor bank, was designed by the USAF and capable of “[producing] doughnut shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning that exploded with devastating effects when hitting its target.” It was classified in 1993.
BY9x TIL of the process of rubber duck debugging. A process whereby you explain your code line by line to a rubber duck in the hope of finding the fault.
R5rb4 TIL that Penguins, Chimpanzees and Capuchin monkeys practice prositution
YvKA TIL in 1999, Ben Stiller made a pilot starring Jack Black as a former astronaut. He was exposed to inappropriate levels of solar energy, giving him superintelligence. And Owen Wilson played Heat Vision, a talking motorcycle.