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TIL Moneytalks was AC/DC's highest charting song on the Hot 100, peaking at number 23.

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9wAK7 TIL: The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 136F (57.8C)
LRXP TIL: Japanese CEO, who took paycut for the employees’ salary, when told about America’s pay-gap, said “We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics.”
WaEL TIL in an act of rare serendipity, the longest eclipse to occur in several hundred years coincided with the development of the supersonic Concorde. So naturally, astronomers chartered the plane to “[chase] the eclipse across the Earth at twice the speed of sound.”
a81eJ TIL In 1927 Italy, Giulio Canella, a M.I.A. soldier from WW1, was "found" alive in an asylum and reunited with his "family." But a court later found he was not Canella but Mario Bruneri, a wanted criminal. Canella's widow continued living with the man and insisted he was her husband until her death.
46Oa TIL Cuba has created four anti-cancer vaccines that have gone completely unreported.