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TIL the term ‘typo’ has been used for typographical errors since 1892

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wYlJ TIL Geffen Records expected Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ to sell around 250,000 copies. It was released in September 1991 and by 1992 it was already selling around 300,000 units a week. It has since sold over 30 million copies.
x6oN7 TIL that unlike most hybrid animals, pizzly bears (offspring of polar and grizzly bears) can successfully breed.
gGjD TIL, in order to ensure Kendrick Lamar didn’t have a ghostwriter Eminem kicked everyone out of the studio and made him write a verse on the spot
x6bx0 TIL that Who Let the Dogs out by the Baha Men out is actually a feminist anthem about men catcalling women. The chant is a response to the women being catcalled on by a group of men, saying that if the men name call then the women can do it right back.
xVaOk TIL about a soccer ball that survived the Challenger disaster in 1986. 30 years later it finally reached space and flew in the ISS for 173 days and almost 3000 trips around the earth.