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TIL that between 1998 and 2011, ‘Torn’ by Natalie Imbruglia was played well over 300,500 times on Australian radio, averaging out to around 75 plays per day.

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9YL9X TIL that biker bar from “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” burned down 5 years after the movie and is now a public library
1rmr TIL that a 23 year old French man impersonated a missing sixteen year old Texas boy and lived with the boy’s family for over four months.
xVEDb TIL That The George Washington memorial statue in London is built on American soil, as Washington once said that he would “never stand on English soil ever again”.
rAO4 TIL that Katrin Himmler, grandniece of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, has NOT refused to have children to end her great-uncle’s “bloodline”, because she believes the idea of good or evil being passed through “bloodlines” is itself a reflection of Nazi ideology.
ne4QW TIL The Soviet KGB fabricated evidence linking the Central Intelligence Agency to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and passed the material to unwitting conspiracy theorists in the United States, according to the Mitrokhin Archive based on KGB files brought to the West by a defector.