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TIL, that the most published works by one author, was L. Ron Hubbard at 1084.

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VBvLG TIL the most collected person or group on Discogs, a renowned comprehensive music database, is not a performing artist but mastering engineer Bob Ludwig, who has 13 Grammys and nearly 8,000 credits, including work with acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Elton John, Metallica and Daft Punk.
nWVYB TIL that in the US alone, over 200,000 minors were legally married from 2002 to 2017, with the youngest being only 10 years old and most of them married to adults.
X0ZD6 TIL in 1931 a 15 year old went to a hospital in Chicago and was mistakenly given a transfusion of blood from a parrot because the physician misheard the doctor’s instruction to “use her parents’ blood.” The hospital staff frantically searched for a parrot and extracted its blood for injection
j6AAa TIL narwhals can dive over 1,800 meters (5,905 feet) deep, and do so multiple times a day
JY0Qv TIL that the United States coexisted with the Holy Roman Empire for thirty years until its dissolution in 1806.