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TIL that Creed’s 2009 reunion tour sold so little tickets that some venues cut ticket prices to only 75 cents.

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yyOX TIL A 2009 search for the Loch Ness Monster came up empty. Scientists did find over 100,000 golf balls.
aBV0 TIL MI6 once hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced instructions on how to make a bomb with a cupcake recipe.
4k8G6 TIL the largest county or county-equivalent in the United States is the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in Alaska which has a total size of 147,842.51 square miles (382,910.3 square kilometers).
78g6X TIL that in 2006, the movie Blazing Saddles was found to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress. It has since been preserved in the National Film Registry.
jNdGa TIL there is a German hospital that specializes in treatment for traumatized train drivers. An average of 3 people in Germany kill themselves by jumping in front of a train every day.