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TIL that Elton John holds the record for most consecutive years--30--of having a song in the top 40

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b6JbQ TIL Heroin was a patent by the Bayer Company and Cocaine was a trademark of the Merck Company.
RYyj TIL 43% of British pilots admitted to falling asleep during flights, 33% of them reported waking up to find that their co-pilots had fallen asleep as well, according to a survey carried between 2010 & 2012 [PDF]
LkLxm TIL hummingbirds use spider silk to build nests. The unique properties of the silk allow the nest to expand as the young hummingbirds grow.
8BZ TIL that IKEA ran the first commercial in the US featuring a homosexual couple. It was shown once and then pulled following bomb threats to the stores.
M7RDa TIL, baseball’s Seattle Mariners were given their name in a newspaper contest by a man named Roger Szmodis, who no one has been able to track down in the 46 years since