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TIL that The Doors were the first act to advertise music using billboards

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LKr9 TIL In 1973, the US government stopped research into thorium based nuclear reactors as, unlike Uranium reactors, their byproducts could not be used to make nuclear weapons
KORpw TIL that there was a Nazi spy network during WWII in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. Their goal was to smuggle drugs into the United States to destabilize the country and lower morale
4kOkb TIL of the Battle of Los Angeles in 24-25 February 1942 when a meteorological balloon made the US think it was under attack by Japan
LQYWQ TIL the 2006 Robbie Williams album Rudebox underperformed so hard one million unsold copies of the album were sold to a Chinese company to be recycled and used as a road paving material.
R7LOw TIL The largest pre-WW1 plane was built by Igor Sikorsky and was named after a Kiev Rus warrior. Sikorsky personally flew the plane from Petersburg to his native Kiev setting several world records.