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TIL that American rock band Green Day had finished an album in 2003, but it was never released because the master tracks were stolen from the studio. Instead of re-recording the album, the band decided to write and record an entire new album, which turned out to be their hit record American Idiot

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9wk16 TIL that the music video for Erasure's 1988 song "A Little Respect" features the logo for Depeche Mode's 1987 album "Music for The Masses" (2:52). Vince Clarke was a founding member of Depeche Mode, but left in 1981 to form Yazoo, then Erasure.
yNRJ TIL During WWII, the British sent POWs prison escape kits hidden inside of Monopoly game boxes containing silk maps, metal files, money, and compasses.
9wOk7 TIL that during the 1920s, Guinness was recommended to pregnant women due to the perceived high iron content of the drink
XEgRQ The U.S. Navy has officially published three videos that show UFOs are genuine, several years after the notorious clips first leaked online and properly ushered in the UFO renaissance. Last year, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.
KYoME TIL in 2012, a group of Mexican scientists intentionally crashed a plane to see which seats have the most chance of survival