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TIL Fifty Shades of Grey was the highest selling book of the 2010s.

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e0NAn TIL Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
E1v1w TIL Some metals are so reactive that they explode on contact with water
l7KBN TIL in 1791 at the Battle of Wabash, approximately one-quarter of the entire U.S. Army was destroyed in one day by Native American forces.
OGkQR TIL Caffeine-Free Coca Cola didn't switch back from the New Coke formula released in 1985 to the original formula until 1989