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TIL that half the world watches live broadcasts of the Olympics

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xO70 TIL Spotify has 4 million songs that haven’t been played once. That’s 20% of all their songs.
yR8l TIL of the Arlington Ladies. Formed in 1948, the Arlington Ladies are group of women who attend the funeral of every armed forces member who is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
bryj TIL that Americans were so confident that crime was caused by alcohol that on the eve of prohibition, some towns in the U.S. sold their jails.
LkpDP TIL Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe from the sitcom Friends) published an academic paper in neurology the same year that Friends debuted on TV.
e0oVJ TIL that standing in the background of the famous Beatles’ album “Abbey Road” is a man named Paul Cole, an American tourist. He was standing outside on the street waiting for his wife to finish exploring a museum when he accidentally photobombed one of the most famous pics in history.