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JY0J8 TIL only 1200 copies of Nirvana's debut 1988 single "Love Buzz" were made; a single copy is currently worth several thousand dollars.
G6PE TIL in 2012 six LCD screen manufacturers were discovered to have colluded in selling over $70 billion price-fixed screens.
N7OBM TIL there’s an exoplanet with rings 200 times larger than Saturn’s.
nW4o7 TIL serial killer John Wayne Gacy lived and worked at a mortuary in Las Vegas years before committing murder. While employed at the mortuary, Gacy would talk to the corpses, take off their clothes, and on one occasion he slept in a coffin with a dead teenage boy.
X06Ej TIL that white asbestos (chrysotile) was used as fake snow in many old Hollywood movies, including The Wizard of Oz.