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TIL the song “Stairway to Heaven” has more radio air time than the amount of time that is has been a song. (It was released in 1971)

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kOPRe TIL CANOLA is an acronym for Canadian Oil Low Acid
0bGR TIL The Murchison meteorite that crashed in Australia contains uracil and xanthine (guanine derivative) nucleobases (DNA components) that were proven to be of non-Earth origin/contamination due to the amount of carbon-13.
avp9 TIL that Marvel Comics owned the trademark to the word “zombie” until 1996
4X8b5 TIL Japan banned beer vending machines from public sidewalks, not to prevent public drunkenness or sales to minors but because liquor store owners didn’t like the competition.
gM0BD TIL One of the most successful KGB agents of the Cold War had the codename, Fedora. He infiltrated the UN and sabotaged the US by providing false information ie. a Fedora tip.