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TIL The Weather Channel released a compilation of the music used during their 'Local on the 8s' segment. It peaked #1 on the Billboard Top 100 chart for Contemporary Jazz.

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a7oN TIL that Kaley Cuoco was once a nationally ranked amateur tennis player. She started at the age of 3 and gave it up at 16.
dDYbr TIL Adolf Hitler was sent by the German armed forces to infiltrate the German Worker's Party led by Anton Drexler. The party was the precursor to the Nazi party that would be led by Hitler.
7re6L TIL Barry, a mountain rescue dog in Switzerland, saved more than 40 lives of stranded people buried under avalanches during his lifetime (1800-1814).
QJMa9 TIL Seattle was given nearly a billion dollars in the 60s to build a subway system but never did after the voters voted against it.
roLM TIL that Archaeologists in 2011 discovered skeletal remains of Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.