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TIL that despite selling 500k copies in its first two hours and going 7x Platinum, Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II albums were considered to have "underperformed" sales expectations.

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Z87Wa TIL When Simon and Garfunkel were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Art Garfunkel thanked Paul Simon for enriching his life and Simon said, “Arthur and I agree about almost nothing. But it’s true, I have enriched his life quite a bit.” After three songs, the duo left without speaking.
bjJQ TIL that Kurt Lee, the first Chinese-American US Marine Corps officer, yelled out orders in Mandarin Chinese to confuse opposing Chinese troops during the Battle of Inchon in the Korean War.
PYbpE TIL that Roald Dahl, while stationed in America in World War 2, slept with countless high society women while gathering intelligence. According to one socialite friend, Dahl had a “whole stable” of women, and “he slept with everybody on the east and west coasts that had more than $50,000 a year."
5NGr Til that Ronald Reagan removed the regulation against product placement in children’s shows, helping create the 80’s cartoon boom with shows like Gi Joe, My little Pony, and Transformers.
rRy1o TIL Operation Condor was a United States-backed campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, officially and formally implemented in November 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America.