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TIL Australia is wider than the moon

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E15E0 TIL about David Edmondson, who lied on his resume to get a position as a Vice President of Marketing at RadioShack in the 90's. He worked his way up over 11 years to become CEO and resigned in disgrace after it was revealed his resume was falsified.
Gk4Q TIL North Korea might be facing one of the world’s worst epidemics of meth users.
4XMpX TIL Madonna was very keen to record the vocals for the song Teardrop by Massive Attack, but Robert Del Naja and Grantley Marshall chose Elizabeth Fraser feeling her ethereal style suited the mournful melody and feel of the piece.
nWkl7 TIL Dan Aykroyd, Joseph Stalin, Ashton Kutcher, and Conan O'Brien were all born with.....webbed toes.
KYA9a TIL that in 1963 the Australian Army conducted "Operation Blowdown", in which 50 tons of TNT was detonated to simulate the effects of a nuclear weapon on a tropical rainforest.