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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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0w1v5 TIL the first repository in the world designed to contain nuclear waste on an indefinite basis is being built in Onkalo, Finland, with a final depth of 520 meters and a cost of over 800 million euros.
9Q66 TIL Lawns have been a sign of great wealth since the Middle Ages. Neighbors assumed you were wealthy if you had cultivated land, but didn’t have to grow food on it.
wLYdo TIL Congress voted to pay George Washington $25,000 a year during his presidency. After initially declining the salary, he ultimately accepted it to avoid setting a precedent whereby the presidency would be seen as limited only to independently wealthy individuals who could serve without any salary.
awOBM TIL that in 2013, a soap opera was filmed in IKEA without the store knowing about it. For a year, the cast and crew filmed scenes at different parts of IKEA. The result was a seven-episode soap opera series called IKEA Heights.
6EAXX TIL that archers would poop in their designated place in the battlefield and then stick the arrows in the poop to spread infection through not fatal wounds