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TIL that every Depeche Mode studio album since Songs of Faith and Devotion in 1993 has hit #1 in Germany. That's 8 albums in a row now.

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NXZPb TIL of the 1978 discovery of 533 reels of nitrate film beneath the permafrost of a decommissioned swimming pool in Alaska
awLrM TIL that a 99-year lease was, under historic common law, the longest possible term of a lease of real property. It is no longer the law in most common law jurisdictions today, yet 99-year leases continue to be common as a matter of business practice.
AkWn TIL Australian man Bill Morgan, after suffering a heart attack leaving him clinically dead for 14 minutes, won a car off a lottery ticket, then during a re-enactment won $250,000.
gMV6b TIL Mozilla, maker of Firefox, has a list of 50,000 most common passwords of which can't be used when setting up a Firefox account
Ybor TIL that William Henry Jackson’s photos played an important role in convincing Congress in 1872 to establish Yellowstone National Park, the first national park of the U.S. He was in a position to capture the first photographs of legendary landmarks of the West.