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TIL the 2006 Robbie Williams album Rudebox underperformed so hard one million unsold copies of the album were sold to a Chinese company to be recycled and used as a road paving material.

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nepPr TIL There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe, It is called the Shannon Number.
l5GN TIL that during nuclear testing in Los Alamos in the ‘50s, an underground test shot a 2-ton steel manhole cover into the atmosphere at 41 miles/second. It was never found.
LQDvV TIL about the Future Library project, a public artwork to collect an original work by a popular writer every year from 2014 to 2114. The works will remain unread and unpublished until 2114. 1000 trees were planted to supply the paper for the published books at the project's conclusion.
wLdk1 TIL- The US government had a secret operation called 'Project Eldest Son' during the Vietnam war. It involved leaving behind thousands of rounds of faulty ammo that would backfire in Vietcong AKs while also leaking fake documents that questioned quality control in Chinese munition factories.
9wVD7 Til 2 out of the 5 top U.S foreign aid recipients since WWII are failed states that no longer exist