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TIL Rick Astley had a hit single called “Giving Up on Love”

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Wkk89 TIL the Vatican City has the highest per capita wine consumption of any country in the world.
vPMY4 TIL The annual award presented by the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities is called the Harold Russell Medal. After the two time Oscar winner and disabled WWII veteran.
1x1D TIL that an 18 year old was sentenced to 17 years in prison for statutory rape, his consensual underage partner was male. If it had been a girl, the maximum sentence would have been 15 months. He served in prison for 5 years until the Kansas Supreme Court ordered his release.
ZpMmB TIL of Army Spc. Alyssa Peterson who died after shortly after refusing to participate in torture of prisoners of war. Her death was ruled a suicide.
lG7V TIL It literally rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter