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TIL that the references in the song We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel are in chronological order from 1950-1989

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PVdL TIL John Wayne was in his hotel room, below Frank Sinatra’s, who was having a party. The noise kept Wayne up so he went to his room and yelled at him. A guard came saying, “Nobody talks to Sinatra that way.” Wayne slapped the man and knocked him out by breaking a chair on top of him. The noise ended
57kD TIL a man convicted of 544 murders, which included 24 fetuses he cut out of pregnant women was tortured for 3 days, broken on the wheel and quartered while still alive.
VBGv8 TIL gas clouds in the universe are detected by not only their emission but also their absorption of starlight. The absorbed wavelengths depend on the elements and compounds in the cloud, as explained by quantum mechanics, allowing us to determine their composition through absorption lines.
015A Til the first item sold on Ebay was a broken laser pointer for 14.83, to someone who kept a broken laser pointer collection
XNrX TIL: When Microsoft shutdown Halo 2 multiplayer, one player kept his xbox running for a month playing until he was booted from the game.