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TIL the most downvoted comment in history belongs to EA games with 667k downvotes

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x6L5B TIL: Clyde Tombaugh, the man that discovered Pluto in 1930, is the great uncle to MLB pitcher Clayton Kershaw.
xpmB TIL a polio victim was kept alive in a metal tube for nearly 60 years only to die when a power outage shut her iron lung down.
9gQp TIL of Helga Estby, who walked across America in 1896 to win $10,000 to save her family’s farm. When she arrived in NYC, the sponsor refused to pay out. She returned to her home to find that two of her children had died during her trip. She then lost the home.
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Oopy7 TIL in 2017, a 10-minute song of silence entitled "A a a a a Very Good Song" became one of the top selling songs on iTunes because it helped solve the problem of car stereos playing the first song from an iPhone playlist in alphabetical order, giving people enough time to pick a song.