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TIL Mr. Brightside by The Killers never left U.K. charts. In fact, it was among the top 50 in 2017

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avBb TIL Financial Hero—Businessman and broker Haym Solomon was responsible for raising most of the money needed to finance the American Revolution and later to save the new nation from collapse.
R5og1 TIL The Lac Megantic train was left unattended overnight on the main track with a running, damaged engine, and none of that is illegal, or even largely abnormal.
xrJg TIL that the yiddish term farpotshket is used to describe something that is completely ruined as a result of someone trying to improve or fix it.
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