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

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6WaQ TIL that after the end of his trial in Los Angeles in 2005, Michael Jackson and his three children spent six months living in a town in Ireland. Many members of the community knew who he was and yet his residence remained a secret from the world at large due to their discretion and misdirection.
ANggx TIL that out of 556 people that have been in space, 339 of them were American. Americans represent 60.97% of all people who have ever been in space.
oRKOL TIL that dueling scars were seen as such a "mark of class" and honor in Germany and Austria, that some students who did not fence would scar themselves with razors in imitation
KOKv9 TIL about a student nurse called Lupe Hernandez who, in 1966, invented hand sanitizer (alcohol gel). She realised that if alcohol was in gel form, it could clean hands when people had no access to soap and water.
8Zd4 TIL New York Point lost out to Braille in the “War of the Dots” when Helen Keller considered it inferior to Braille. Her claim that it caused literacy problems among blind children was one of the chief arguments against New York Point and by 1916 Braille prevailed.