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TIL Twenty One Pilots is the only act in history to have two entire albums worth of songs certified Gold or Platinum. No other artist has ever achieved this.

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a8JVA TIL In WWI, the German's A7V Sturmpanzerwagen tank had a minimum of 18 crew, sometimes as many as 25 men onboard. 1 commander, 1 driver, 1 mechanic, 1 signaler, 6 machine gunners, 6 loaders, and 2 artillerymen
QR8a TIL Sanal Edamuruku against whom the Mumbai Catholic Church filed a blasphemy case in 2012 for exposing the science behind a miracle has been in Finland since then since he faces indefinite jailtime under blasphemy laws in India for this act
4Xbr6 TIL the price of a loaf of bread has risen by 11,000% in the past 100 years thanks to inflation and will cost almost $200 next century if prices rise at the same rate.
OoPde TIL NY Rangers fan still chant "Potvin Sucks" at every game, against every team, even though Dennis Potvin retired from the NY Islanders in 1988.
gxXb TIL that the first Emperor of China’s tomb (Of Terracotta Army fame) has not yet been explored. Ancient historians wrote that the tomb contains rivers of mercury mechanically operated to flow like real rivers; modern tests have reported mercury levels in the soil over 100 times what occurs naturally