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TIL the Canadian rock band Rush stands third after the Beatles and Rolling Stones for the most consecutive gold or platinum studio albums by a rock band.

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d878d TIL about the Battle of Camaron, where 64 French Foreign Legionnaires resisted to 3,000 mexican soldiers for a whole day long. The 3 last legion survivors, heavily wounded, refused to continue the fight at their own terms.
vNZ4 TIL there is a 36 acre artificial reef in Florida constructed entirely of tires. The “reef” failed as no marine life were able to inhabit it. The site is currently an environmental disaster. “It’s weird…it’s just tires as far as you can see down there.”
wopw1 TIL there were plans to raise the Titanic by using liquid nitrogen to turn it into an iceberg. Alternate plans included filling it with vaseline or ping pong balls. None came to fruition.
Wkr54 TIL French musician Jordy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest singer ever to have a No. 1 charted single at the age of 4
QJKnL TIL that Hugh Laurie struggles with severe clinical depression. He first became aware of it when he saw two cars collide and explode in a demolition derby and felt bored rather than excited or frightened. As he said: “boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars".