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TIL In 1987 Fisher Price released the PXL2000 toy, ultra low tech, video camera that recorded monochromatic, low quality, video on audio cassettes. A commercial flop at the time, its now highly prized by film makers and artists for the uniquely grainy, antique, mysterious look it creates on film.

by whatilearned January 25, 2022, 8:03 pm

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TIL Nine Inch Nails recorded their album The Downward Spiral in the house that the Manson murders occurred.

by whatilearned January 25, 2022, 3:49 pm

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TIL Researchers from three universities in Germany have created the coldest temperature ever recorded in a lab, 38 trillionths of a degree warmer than absolute zero

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 5:46 am

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TIL that singer Al Bowlly was killed by a German parachute mine in his London home in 1941. He recorded over a thousand songs in his career, including “Midnight, the Stars and You”, which is played in the final moments of the film “The Shining”.

by whatilearned January 17, 2022, 6:59 pm

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TIL China recorded the second highest death toll during WWII, totaling 14 million casualties

by whatilearned January 17, 2022, 7:40 am

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TIL that in 2002 Joe Strummer (former frontman for The Clash) was vacationing in L.A. and found out Johnny Cash was in town recording. He came every day, and extended his vacation another week, to watch him play. They recorded Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” together, with Tom Morello on guitar.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 11:48 pm

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TIL of Martyn Stubbs, who somehow got the raw NASA feed for nearly a decade back in the 70s and 80s and recorded it for posterity!

by whatilearned January 15, 2022, 4:18 am

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TIL Brian Wilson was obsessed with The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby.” He had copies of it all over his house, compared it to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and called it the best song ever recorded. He wrote “Don’t Worry Baby” for Ronnie Spector, but Phil (who was aware of the obsession) rejected it.

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 8:25 pm

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TIL gorillas usually weigh between 300-500 pounds (136-227 kg), with the heaviest gorilla ever recorded massing 589 pounds (267 kg), and the most overweight captive gorilla only ever reached 683 pounds (310 kg). There is no such thing as an “800 pound gorilla,” it never existed.

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 8:33 am

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TIL: Barry Manilow’s hit “I Write the Songs” was originally recorded by The Captain & Tennille and was written by a member of The Beach Boys

by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 6:25 pm

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TIL that the longest recorded reign of any monarch in history belongs to king Sobhuza II of Eswatini (Swaziland). His reign stretched from December 1899 (at 4 months old) up to August 1982, for a total of 82 years and 254 days !

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 11:42 pm

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TIL about the “Well to Hell” hoax. The hoax suggested a wealthy Russian man drilled a hole many miles deep into the Earth eventually finding a cavern, and with heat resistant equipment, recorded the screams of the damned. The hoax travelled the globe.

by whatilearned January 9, 2022, 4:25 pm

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