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TIL O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack has been on the Billboard soundtrack chart for 8 ½ years

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lo5aB TIL that eminem’s high score in donkey kong put him in the top 30 of all time in 2010.
vPNb4 TIL that in 1860 New Mexico was by far the most populous of the 7 U.S. territories, and yet was last to be given statehood.
ePGn TIL in 2009 three police officers earned over $300,000 a year in Clarkstown NY, one of the safest towns in the country.
7erp TIL that when asked about his religious beliefs in an interview with TIME, Vladimir Putin remarked, “…There are things I believe, which should not in my position, at least, be shared with the public for everybody’s consumption because that would look like self-advertising or a political striptease.”
Xj66 TIL scientists recreated a 9th century onion and garlic eye remedy from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript, and found that it killed 90% of antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria (MRSA).