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TIL Someone made a Jack Torrance twitter account, with over 1 million tweets saying the same thing

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kO1Q7 TIL of the 121 songs Billy Joel recorded, 33 (27%) of them were top 40 hits.
6EJGQ TIL the Russians killed 20 million in labor camps, forced collectivization, famine and executions.
XEdKX TIL that researchers have found a meteorite that is older then earth in Algeria; and is our only evidence of a protoplanet that existed before earth
kOM1g TIL that the organism Mycobacterium Leprae, which causes Leprosy, has never been successfully grown in a lab in non-living media. It can only be cultivated in animal specimens, specifically on armadillo feet. This makes the organism extremely difficult to study and nearly impossible to eradicate.
VBQ08 TIL during World War 2, Pittsburgh produced more steel and iron than all Axis powers—combined.