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TIL Cal Polytechnic placed a commemorative plaque at the bathroom where “Weird Al” Yankovic recorded his breakthrough song “My Bologna” in 1979. It is humorously known as “Studio 229.” (slate.com)
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TIL: The Spotify API was used to analyze the BPM and energy rating of over 900 songs to determine which songs negatively affected driving. "Don't Get Me Wrong" was the most dangerous song with a ri... (www.edriving.com)
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TIL New Mexico is the first (and so far only) US state to have an official "state aroma", the scent of roasting green chiles. (www.lcsun-news.com)
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TIL there are people who can smell ants (www.newshub.co.nz)
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Today I learned someone paid $2M for a sealed 1985 NES Super Mario Bros. (www.polygon.com)
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TIL There's a Japanese beetle that when eaten by a frog will haul ass through its digestive system and escape out the back end unscathed. (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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TIL at a 2005 congressional hearing, mentions of the Sedan nuclear test was incorrectly transcribed as "Sudan" in the record. Sudanese officials later stated that they "take this issue seriously an... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the origin of why married couples become 'one' & women take their husband's surname dates back to the 1600s, where coverture prohibited women from having any legal identity or rights b... (www.brides.com)
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TIL that one time Britain took revenge on a huge fatberg blocking London's sewers by turning it into biodiesel. The 2017 fatberg weighed 130 tons and was over 250 meters (820 ft) long, consisting o... (www.museumoflondon.org.uk)
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TIL that the Netherlands' first mobile phone network was super unsafe. Spies could listen in on phone calls. Hackers discovered that they could steal any phone number or get new phone numbers by mo... (www.cryptomuseum.com)
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