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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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69pVQ TIL that Bob Ross spent 20 years in the US Air Force, was a Drill Sergeant and rose to the rank of First Sergeant
4k19b TIL that in Chinese weddings during the 1980s and 1990s, the bride had to light a cigarette for every man attending the wedding banquet as a token of gratitude.
0XyA TIL the British empire was completely connected by telegraph via underwater cables.
YpxAZ TIL In 1964 Hildegarde Trabant became the fifthtieth person (and one of eight women) to be killed at the Berlin Wall. A member of the Communist Party and married to a member of the police force, she was reportedly fleeing an abusive marriage when she was killed at the age of 37.
5OVP TIL that the Thomas Jefferson quote “A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have” was never uttered by Jefferson. It was first said by Gerald Ford.