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TIL Public DNA records can be used to find distant relatives of criminals, from which investigators can build a family tree and catch said criminals

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 5:01 am

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TIL vinyl records were invented so soldiers in WWII could listen to music without wasting shellac

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 2:54 pm

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My penis once was in the Guinness Book of World Records…

by cringeyjokesman May 6, 2022, 8:57 am

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TIL that the Guinness World Records title for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive is held by nonuplets from Mali. There are only two other recorded cases of nonuplets in the world ever, in Australia (1971) and in Malaysia (1999), which all the babies died.

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 4:38 pm

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TIL the Co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records was assassinated by the IRA after placing a bounty on them

by whatilearned April 29, 2022, 12:52 pm

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TIL There’s 3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work

by whatilearned April 27, 2022, 10:47 pm

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How can modern civilization keep records to last for hundreds, thousands of years?

by HistoryBuff April 26, 2022, 6:29 am

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TIL Mike Oldfield, when Virgin Records insisted on hi9m calling his next LP “Tubular Bells 2”, responded with “Amarok” – an album with rapidly shifting themes, random bursts of noise, and a message in morse code saying “F**k you RB” – apparently directed at Richard Branson.

by whatilearned April 19, 2022, 4:17 pm

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TIL in the original pressings of Stevie Wonder’s album “The Secret Life of Plants,” manufacturers sprayed the cover’s inside with a perfume of flower scent (you can still faintly detect it in some copies.) Then people discovered the vinyl records were being eaten away by the scent solution.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 8:27 pm

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TIL, Atlantic Records didn’t own the sample used in Lupe Fiasco’s “Kick, Push” so they tracked down the relatively obscure Filipino artist & bought the single from her

by whatilearned April 13, 2022, 12:58 am

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TIL Historians have found no written records of the Dodecahedrons found in dozens of sites across northern Europe, no one is certain just what they were used for.

by whatilearned April 12, 2022, 3:59 pm

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My neighbour is in the the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS.

by cringeyjokesman March 31, 2022, 6:49 pm

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