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TIL Google has been buying 1 company a week, since 2010.

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N7NmM TIL the German crime show Aktenzeichen XY Ungelöst (Case number XY...unsolved) has been on the air for more than 53 years and provided the inspiration for Unsolved Mysteries and America's Most Wanted in the US and Crimewatch in the UK.
D0QJ TIL that the 17-minute long psychedelic rock song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly, was originally named In the Garden Of Eden. The lead singer was so high, drunk, or both that he slurred the words, creating the title.
97YB TIL that the entire staff of Australian radio station Triple J went on strike to protest the censoring of the N.W.A song ‘Fuck tha Police". As one final protest before they left they put N.W.A’s 'Express Yourself’ on repeat. It played for 24 hours straight.
KZEJ TIL Early 60s American astronauts had groupies as there were “plenty of pretty women who would give anything to sleep with an astronaut”
wKPY TIL That the majority of Americans believe that violent crime rates are at an all time high, despite the fact that they have been steadily declining for decades