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TIL that from 1998-99, when Total Request Live's #1 song changed, 55 of those times it was from a Backstreet Boys song to an N Sync song or vice versa

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RoO6 TIL in 1791 an English ship found what is now the Chatham Islands which were inhabited by a hunter gatherer group known as the Moriori. Upon hearing of these nearby Islands, Māori from New Zealand commandeered a ship, invaded the Chatham Islands, committed genocide, and enslaved the survivors.
yQ6NV TIL that due to a personnel shortage as a result of WWII, for one NFL season the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh Steagles.
kpWB TIL in 2012 the NYPD declared a couple to be “professional agitators” because they filmed videos of police conducting stop-and-frisks and uploaded them to YouTube. Cops posted their mugshots in a stationhouse and warned officers to be on guard against them.
6OYQ TIL there is a free-market surgery center in Oklahoma that lets you know what the price is for a procedure ahead of time.
7rNBZ TIL More people died during the English Civil War as a percentage of the overall population than in world war one.