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TIL "Mr Brightside" by The Killers, a song released in 2003, has been on the UK Hot 100 charts for 216 week (4+ years)

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O4W7 TIL there is a programming language which uses Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes as syntax.
1a71D TIL when you love getting attention and hate it at the same time is called Hedgehog's dilemma
x6p8w TIL the Beatles were not legally dissolved as a band until 1974 when John Lennon signed the final contract while on vacation at Disney World in Florida
4X58b TIL In 2015 a district in Iceland repealed a 400-year-old decree to kill any Basque caught in the area on sight. The edict was issued in 1615 after a storm destroyed 3 Basque whaling vessels on an expedition in Iceland. The crew resorted to robbery that eventually led to the Slaying of the Spaniards
Jk5j TIL of King Mithridates of Pontus, who ingested many different poisons in graduating amounts to become immune so that he couldn’t be poisoned by his enemies. When he was captured, he tried to commit suicide by poisoning himself but failed because he was immune.