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TIL a disco arrangement of "Star Wars Theme and Cantina Band" by Meco is the only instrumental single to reach Platinum status by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), having sold over 2 million units

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wond1 TIL that Pope Gregory IX issued a Papal Bull declaring that cats bore Satan’s spirit, which subsequently led to huge numbers of cats being killed throughout Europe producing an indirect cause of the Bubonic plague spread by fleas on rats, which would otherwise have been hunted by the dead cats.
9wP6M TIL that the once popular fast food automat concept still exists in Amsterdam as FEBO
DQadV TIL people gave fast-food hamburgers to rural crows to try to find out why urban crows are getting high cholesterol
PY5L TIL that people can be allergic to the cold.
MWV0 TIL that, in 2014, Germany was the country with the most penis enlargement operations worldwide, leading by 500%