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TIL the album Smash by The Offspring has sold over 11 million copies worldwide making it the best-selling independent label album of all time.

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7r71L TIL that since the 1980s, novelty Garfield phones have been washing up on the beaches of Brittany in France. It was only in 2019 that the source - a lost shipping container - was discovered
V044 TIL Timothy Cole was arrested and convicted of rape in 1985 and sentenced to 25 years, dying in prison in 1999. After the statute of limitations on the crime had run out, the real rapist confessed and DNA testing proved Cole innocence. He was officially pardoned in 2009.
B4bW TIL a woman was allowed to join the Fire Department of New York despite failing a mandatory physical skills/fitness test.
NX408 TIL that Over 50 percent of the world's population relies on rice for 80 percent of it's food requirements
GdNE TIL the Outer Space Treaty, signed by all major space faring nations, prohibits claiming territory in space or on celestial bodies. Space is considered “the shared heritage of mankind”