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TIL The Gorillaz were the first artist to chart in the UK Top 40 with a majority of sales coming from digital downloads.

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7RX TIL Baseball and Cricket are the only major sports where the defense has the ball
wee7 TIL that the government has actually shut down 17 times over the past 37 years. It happened 3 times in 1977.
pYeGZ TIL of the Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, who was falsely convicted of killing 4 children under her care. She spent 6 years in jail before she was exonerated.
9wKQM TIL about the Lost Apple Project, a nonprofit organization that searches abandoned farms in the Pacific Northwest to locate old apple varieties that have been thought to be lost or extinct. There were approximately 17k varieties of apples in the US, but only about 4.5k are known to exist today
DZxr TIL A study at UT Austin determined that accepting a job below one’s skill level can adversely affect future employment prospects