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TIL NWA’s Straight Outta Compton was the first album to reach platinum status without the support of airplay or a major tour

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lovoB TIL an Italian show forced Muse to do playback, so they decided to mock the performance by swapping all instruments among themselves.
QJ4LX TIL Fifty years ago, 5 unmanned lunar orbiters circled the moon, taking extremely high resolution photos of the surface that if you printed it would fit a billboard without losing any quality.
j6e6X TIL: The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia was originally named after a botanist (Fuchs) but renamed Magenta to celebrate a battle victory.
lbkK TIL The new age singer, Enya, boasts $169 million fortune, won’t listen to music by any other artist, and lives as a recluse in a castle with cats as her closest companions.
9YoGp TIL that an 18 year old girl was convinced by a boy she met online, who claimed to be a multi-millionaire, to kill her best friend. She then convinced 4 others to help her murder her best friend to split a $9 million dollar prize.