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TIL In 1999 Pope John Paul II released an album. It had entirely original compositions and reached #175 on the billboard charts

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VBXW0 TIL George Orwell provided the British state with a list of possible communists/subversives before he died in 1949
e8XJ TIL that Alien Ant Farm crashed the BET awards in 2003 to film their music video for “These Days”. They were arrested for the act.
epx44 TIL elephant trunks are strong enough to lift and hold 770lbs yet precise enough to crack peanut shells without breaking the seeds
g6A9 TIL in 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a South California mosque who pretended to be a radical muslim, and the muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI
e51b TIL when John McAfee was asked if he personally uses McAfee anti-virus he replied by saying “I take it off,” and that “It’s too annoying.”