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TIL that, other than The Beatles, Mariah Carey holds the most number ones in US history (19)

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X0EO8 TIL American Express once ran a promotion of $10 back on any purchase. Stores had rows of credit card machines lined up, with some people swiping dozens of cards to earn hundreds in cash back
6M8Q TIL that during the first moon landing, the average age in the mission control room was 28.
165eD TIL that the great-grandson of Benito Mussolini, Romano Mussolini, is a professional footballer, who's now playing for first-division Italian club Lazio
78MXZ TIL in 2007, a woman successfully appealed her case after being sentenced for breastfeeding her infant while driving on the Ohio Turnpike because her car was registered in Michigan and the judge ruled that the state law forbidding breastfeeding while driving only applied to cars registered in Ohio.
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