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TIL that the Police Service of Northern Ireland was almost given the acronym of NIPS

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V8Lp TIL Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle sold over 800K copies in it’s first week which became the record for a debuting artist and the fastest-selling hip hop album ever until Eminem’s album The Marshall Mathers LP bested it. Both were produced by Dr. Dre.
v1eN7 Today I learned that Ringo Starr was the narrator for Thomas the Tank Engine from 1984-1990.
5YdbP TIL Volkswagen sells more sausages than cars, sold under the "Volkswagen original parts" number 199398500a, the currywusrt has been available for 45 years now
rNave TIL that a 10 meter microwave telescope has been operating at the South Pole since 2007
ErRo TIL In 1999 Mike Judge got a thank-you letter from a Columbine survivor who credited “Wings of the Dope” with making her realize it was okay to grieve the boy she never got to tell she loved - even though he was one of the shooters.