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TIL that the rock band ZZ Top has had the same members without any changes since 1969, 47 years.

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d8rQ9 TIL in 1982, three guys lived on a billboard as part of a radio contest. The last one to come down would win an $18,000 mobile home. The contest became international news, one of the contestants was caught selling weed, and it went on for so many months that it had to be ended with two winners.
Y7JMA TIL that Lake Kariba, on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, is the world's largest artificial lake by volume. It contains 43 cubic miles of water and has a surface area of 2,150 square miles
QnyM TIL the first (likely) artificial sweetener made by mankind poisoned a lot of Romans, due to its lead acetate content.
R7xZQ TIL that behind the feeling of "anger" is always any sort of pain
6W9W TIL the state of Mississippi ranked 2nd in charitable giving in 2012, despite having the lowest per capita personal income in all of the US