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TIL George Harrison was the first solo Beatle to achieve a #1 single in the US

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16wbD TIL "Cart-Starts"(tiny explosives) are used to make a launch quicker for B-52s
e0baD TIL that Led Zeppelin may have played at the Wheaton Youth Center in Maryland, but with no known recordings, photographs, or any other physical evidence that the concert took place, it has turned into something of an urban legend.
nWxOd TIL: Rhode Island is not an island. It's a state of the US. But there is a Rhode Island island within Rhode Island state, also called Aquidneck Island.
N7va6 TIL as many as 55% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage -- most often before a woman misses a menstrual period or even knows she is pregnant and that more than 80% of miscarriages occur within the first three months of pregnancy, mostly caused by chromosomal abnormalities.
0wE8p TIL US had extensive contact with Ayatollah Khomeini before the Iranian revolution; and that Carter administration paved way for Khomeini to return to Iran by holding the army back from launching a military coup