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TIL Beyonce and DMX are the only artists to debut at No. 1 with their first five studio efforts.

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VaYk TIL that because of post-glacial rebound, Finland is rising so fast that they have laws in place for when new land appears
46MN TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed to Lady Bird Taylor on their first date. They were married 3 months later.
4Xjxw TIL about the Turks of South Carolina, a community that traces its lineage back to Joseph Benenhaley, or Yusef Ben Ali, an Ottoman Turk refugee who fought in the American Revolutionary War, and whose members were discriminated against as "second-class citizens" in the segregated South.
yKEp TIL that a 61 year old truck driver without a college degree was able to reproduce the classified mechanical workings of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
X0kXD TIL that reductio ad absurdum is when you attempt to reduce an argument to absurdity (I.e The Earth cannot be flat; otherwise, since the Earth is assumed to be finite in extent, we would find people falling off the edge.)