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TIL being unpopular increases our chance of death more strongly than obesity, physical inactivity or binge drinking

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P1emJ TIL the Righteous Brothers became the first musical act to ever have two versions of the same song in the Billboard Top 20 at the same time when both their original 1965 version of "Unchained Melody" and their new re-recording of the song were released in 1990.
lQdA TIL Hitler had plans to build a “People’s Hall”, a 700 foot dome which would have been the largest enclosed structure on earth, complete with its own weather system inside of the building because of the sheer size.
aPX0 TIL out of the 10,000 members of the Communist Party USA in 1957, 1,500 were FBI informants.
W75y9 TIL John Hinkley Jr. (who shot Reagan in 1981) has a YouTube channel featuring him performing original music and covers of works by people like Elvis and Bob Dylan.
XE0dR TIL that the last "wild" American Indian - Ishi - walked out into the Western world near Oroville, California in 1911