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TIL at one point in the 1990’s, 50% of the CD’s produced worldwide had an AOL logo on it

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ANLAx TIL about how the Royals of Hawai'i went to Queen Victoria's golden Jubilee and that Queen Kapi'olani of the Hawaiian islands was seated two seats to Queen Victoria, a Sign that she was a guest of high status.
mxMDy TIL that North Korea is the only country with a 100% literacy rate according to UNESCO
noOG TIL that the Creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped two falsely accused men out of prison after solving the already closed cases.
rRYew TIL of a coal mine fire that has been burning under Pennsylvania since the 1960s.
N7078 TIL the CIA once "kidnapped" a Soviet spacecraft overnight, took it apart, studied it, reassembled it, & sent it back without the Soviets realizing.