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TIL that Blue has released more Greatest Hits albums than actual albums

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rNWY0 TIL that Nuclear Submarines can go around the world Twice or make the round trip from New York to Liverpool 7 times without having to surface once.
4XO0g TIL during WWI, due to concerns the public would reject their product, American sauerkraut makers relabeled it as "Liberty Cabbage".
b604Q TIL the charity single "That's What Friends Are For" sung by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder was first recorded in 1982 by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack of the film Night Shift.
5VrQD TIL that the U.S. Army disposed of banned chemical weapons and munitions through a program called CHASE (Cut Holes And Sink ‘Em) where the chemicals were loaded on a ship that was then purposely sank in the ocean.
nKyW TIL John Wayne, after some phone complaints, went down and told Frank Sinatra to end a party held in the suite directly below his own. A bodyguard confronted him, Wayne looked at him & turned as if to leave, then backhanded him and smashed a chair over his head. The noise stopped.