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TIL that AC/DC has never had a top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and has only cracked the top 40 three times. This is despite having sold 75 million records in the US.

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4o9o TIL in Soviet-controlled states, prisoners would get tattoos of figures such a Lenin and Karl Marx because firing squads and guards were not allowed to deface images of the USSR’s founding fathers.
4XO4g TIL of TABOR, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which currently only exists in Colorado. It ties tax revenue increases to population & inflation, and larger increases have to be put to a vote. The author was named Douglas Bruce, and efforts to find work-arounds are known as "de-Brucing."
Ekvo TIL During Abraham Lincoln’s campaign for the presidency, a Democrat named Valentine Tapley from Missouri, swore that he would never shave again if Abe were elected. Tapley kept his word and did not shave from 1860 until he died in 1910, attaining a length of twelve feet six inches.
R7951 TIL in 2008 Foo Fighters held a Charity concert for the HIV-denialist group "Alive&Well". In private footage Grohl is seen with founder of the organization Christine Maggiore and Shiflett speaking in support of the Organization. Maggiore died in 2008 of suspected AIDS-related pneumonia.
rRJKd TIL that the actor who plays Edmund Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia series is the direct descendant of both, Charles Darwin (on his father’s side) and the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, Baháʼu'lláh (on his mother’s side)