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TIL the 1967 Velvet Underground album "The Velvet Underground & Nico" didn't reach the UK charts until 1994, and peaked in 2013, after Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed died.

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wLm9J TIL that GIMP, the free open source image manipulation software, is mainly developed by only 6 people working at night after their day job.
Brm6D TIL exactly 57 years ago, JFK gave his Ich bin ein Berliner ("I am a Berliner") speech in the backdrop of the Berlin Wall. “Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.”
wo8x7 TIL show sponsor Home Depot pushed out host Bob Vila from PBS's This Old House in 1989 due to his sponsorship of then-competitor Rickel. He was paid so little by the network, whose funding had been slashed, that he decided to stick with Rickel rather than the show.
4EMR TIL after a girl in his community was killed by a red-light runner, this 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. With his neighborhood cheering him on, he smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop, no charges were filed against him
e01M5 TIL the effect that grapefruit juice has on the absorption of many pharmaceutical drugs was discovered accidentally, when studying the effect of alcohol on drug absorption. The study used grapefruit juice to mask the taste of alcohol for a blind test.