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TIL Red vs. Blue is the second longest running web series of all time, behind only Homestar Runner

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QJX0p TIL- On 18th April 1930 the BBC's news announcer reported: "There is no news" and played piano music for the rest of the programme.
J16JB TIL that “988” has been designated for mental health/substance abuse/suicide emergencies instead of “911” starting July 16.
rNpX4 TIL for Moog Indigo (1970), synth pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey recorded actual bees, corrected their pitches to musical notes, then manually spliced tapes into the melody of "Flight of the Bumblebee". In an era before computer editing, the melody for one verse took 52 hours.
69oD8 TIL the largest single celled organism can grow up to TWO inches
VMpYm TIL that the last German plane to fly over Britain during WW2 was a jet-engined bomber.