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WkwPL TIL David Attenborough has released an album of Field Recordings from Across the Planet dating from 50 years ago , and featuring indigenous music from a time before these cultures had been influenced by western music.
boM0 TIL that a Norwegian company in 1959 drove a three-ton block of ice from the Arctic Circle to the Equator, without refrigeration. They lost only 336 kg.
dDlKj TIL of Wall-Sun-Sun primes, a category of prime numbers that obey certain rules related to the Fibonacci sequence. It is conjectured that there are infinitely many of them. None are known, and there are definitely none that are smaller than 20 digits.
6ERgZ TIL Doomguy, the protagonist of the game 'Doom', has a pet rabbit named Daisy, who appears in both the original games and the rebooted series.
E1V4X TIL that lie detectors are a complete hoax, they don't work at all, but the police still use them. The police are aware that they don't work, but use them to get the defendants to plead guilty.