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TIL Dolly Parton wrote a song that won't be released until 2045.

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99ZQ TIL of the Nedelin catastrophe - a Soviet ICBM launch that went wrong, killing 78 (or more) people, who could not escape the explosion and burning fuel. It was suppressed by the government until 1989. Graphic video in comments
6E0VY TIL a german man hacked thousands of IoT devices and operated a massive botnet in the last 8 years for the sole purpurse of downloading Anime
0BKA TIL in 2004, a Wal-Mart was built on a section of Teotihuacan. Ancient artifacts were shipped off to dumps by workers who found them on the site.
VMB0B TIL Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, was not only responsible for bacon and eggs becoming an American breakfast staple, but was also responsible for women taking up smoking in protest in the 1920's, dubbing them "Torches Of Freedom".
d5yZ TIL that when asked if he thinks his book genuinely upsets people, Salman Rushdie said “The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don’t try and burn the planet down. There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist”