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TIL Legend by Bob Marley has been on the album chart for over 914 weeks and currently sits at 69

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e1xJ TIL Horton Hears a Who, by Dr. Seuss, is an allegory for post-WWII US occupation of Japan. Seuss, who was vehemently anti-Japanese during the conflict, had a drastic change of heart after visiting postwar Japan. He dedicated the book to a Japanese friend.
X69P TIL that claiming you panicked because of an unwanted homosexual advance is a legitimate defense against a murder charge in Australia
Brr9d TIL Keanu Reeves almost changed his name to Chuck Spadina
LkXGV TIL The voyager space message contains greetings in 55 languages, but is missing Swahili because the person did not show up to the studio.
N79WN TIL: After British colonists killed off the entirety of the Tasmanian Aboriginal natives in a matter of ~60 years, the last full-blooded Tasmanian male's body was dug up by a surgeon (who had already mutilated the corpse in the hospital previously) can take skin off the body to make a tobacco pouch.