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TIL Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster” is a remix of Edwin Birdsong’s “Cola Bottle Baby”

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e0EWk TIL John Adams' Inaugural address, which totaled 2,308 words, contained the longest sentence ever, at 737 words.
v1ooK TIL A temple housing a 500-ton statue of the Buddha was commissioned by Emperor Shomu in response to an epidemic which wiped out one third of the Japanese population. Casting the statue almost bankrupted the country.
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