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TIL hip-hop artists Wu-Tang Clan recorded a single copy of a secret album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin". It was limited to a single copy sold for a reported $2 million.

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kOVyg TIL about Peto's Paradox, a paradoxical observation stating that contrary to what you would think, larger organism have lower rates of cancer than do smaller ones.
LmRZ TIL that in Iceland books are exchanged on Christmas Eve & you spend the rest of the night reading. Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country; & new books are typically published only during the Christmas season. This frenzy is called Jólabókaflóð, or “Christmas Book Flood.”
k79E TIL that Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, is also the Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
4Xobb TIL there once existed the Silver Republican Party, a US political party that split from the Republican Party in the 1890s over the issues of bimetallism and free silver. It disbanded in the early 1900s and most of its members joined the GOP, but some went to the Democrats.
OoLB7 TIL DNA produces electromagnetic signals. These signals can be transmitted electronically as WAV file. These signals can be re-emitted on distant pure water sample, where DNA can replicate through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) despite the absence of the original DNA in the new water sample.