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TIL that Queen is the only band in the world where every member has written at least 3 number ones, meaning that the whole band is in the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame

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M858 TIL the actor who played the scientist from “In a cave with a box of scraps” scene in Iron Man was Ralphie from A Christmas Story. He was also one of the executive producers of the film.
xjOo TIL within 10 million years a star known as Gliese 710 will pass within one light-year of the Solar System, possibly causing a massive gravitational disturbance
WkEZL TIL In 1944, by a huge coincidence, a crossword puzzle was printed with answers all containing D-Day operation "code names", which sent MI-5 into a panic thinking their invasion plans had been discovered.
epgkE TIL there is an island off the coast of South Carolina with a colony 4000 rhesus monkeys run by a government research institute.
9YWeG TIL American soldiers in the Pacific theater of WW2 always used passwords containing the letter 'L' due to Japanese mispronunciation, a word such as lollapalooza would be used and upon hearing the first two syllables come back as 'rorra' would "open fire without waiting to hear the rest".