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TIL rapper Too Short managed to sell 50,000 copies of his album "Born to Mack" from the trunk of his car.

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RYxl TIL On the 27th of August 1883 the loudest noise in recorded history came from a volcanic eruption that had a force 10,000 times that of a hydrogen bomb.
PYLdV TIL that the Peloponessian War between Athens and Sparta only ended in 1996 - no treaty was signed when the fighting ended in 404 BC, so 25 centuries later the mayors of the cities signed a pact saying "Today we express our grief for the devastating war between the two cities and declare its end"
p8674 TIL about the My Way killings, a social phenomenon in the Philippines referring to a number of fatal disputes which arose due to the singing of the song My Way by Frank Sinatra in karaoke bars.
dl7E TIL that in 1972 a 1.7 billion year old nuclear reactor was discovered in Africa
8aW8G TIL in 2017, several Soviet Time Capsules were unearthed on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Russian Revolution. They were buried at the 50th anniversary in 1967 and contained a lot of hopeful writings for 2017.