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TIL that David Hasselhoff has released 15 albums of music

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EmNd TIL that former director of the US Department of Defense, Andrew Marshall, was Appointed to the position by Richard Nixon. He was re-appointed by every president until his retirement because of is effectiveness. Most notably, he has predicted the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of China.
VBZ6Q TIL tulips caused the world's first economic bubble in the 1630s, dubbed Tulip Mania, when one East Indies trade voyage could yield profits of 400% for Amsterdam merchants.
X011P TIL that two scientists realised that the very same AI/ML technology they developed to discover medicines for rare diseases could also discover 40,000 new chemical weapons in under a day.
QJM4E TIL The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of killing US President John F. Kennedy, is the first known human killing seen live on TV.
GYPA5 TIL A SYNANAGRAM is a word whose letters can be rearranged to form a different word with the same meaning—like ‘angered’ and ‘enraged’. ‘Twelve plus one’ is an anagram of ‘eleven plus two.’ and both add up to 13!