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TIL ACDC has 21 songs with the word “Rock” in the title.

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QNRyd TIL during the Irish Famine (1845-1849), under the ruling British Government, huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation.
grZG7 TIL the studio behind the movie Se7en proposed a sequel called "Ei8ht" where a suddenly psychic Morgan Freeman chases an also psychic serial killer. The idea was dropped after director David Fincher replied, "I would be less interested in that than I would in having cigarettes put out in my eyes."
e001k The journey of Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul lasted a little over 80 hours.
XV4X TIL the word “poppycock” comes from the Dutch word poppekak, which literally translates to “as fine as doll shit”.
PYl5G A shocking number of people view cyclists as less than human — even likening them to insects — and that those “dehumanizing” attitudes are connected with aggressive driving targeted at people on bikes, according to a new study.