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TIL the album Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd was in the Billboard Top 200 for a record of 736 weeks since its debut in 1973.

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KY006 TIL Ketchup is sweeter in British Commonwealth countries than the United States
JYEJ4 TIL Coca Cola's secret ingredients were revealed to a rabbi in 1935 so he could certify it as kosher.
xVMLk TIL that in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 1920, the population elected a goat as a city councilor in protest to local oligarchies and politicians.
mxNOM TIL that Stockholm syndrome is not a real syndrome, and cannot be found in any clinical psychology textbooks (DSM-5 etc). The term has achieved its widespread fame almost solely due to media oversimplification of complex psychological phenomena.
jNMGQ TIL in 1981 members of a U.S. nuclear semiotics team believed if the world ended, survivors 10,000 years in the future might not know what the radiation symbol means. So they proposed breeding bioluminescent cats that would glow when they came near radiation to serve as living indicators of danger.