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TIL Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC were established by the same financier, Lou Pearlman, who, among numerous other schemes, infamously classified himself as the “sixth member of the band” to siphon profits away from the artists.

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ne0dr TIL of a 1972 CIA project to wiretap enemy phone lines deep within North Vietnam. The helicopter used in the operation, developed at Area 51, was the quietest ever built. In the dead of night, its pilots flew 100-200 feet above North Vietnamese farmers and anti-aircraft guns without being detected.
XEn7P TIL that Azerbaijan destroyed medieval Armenian graves in what has been referred to as 'cultural genocide'
pYArN TIL the world’s largest ETF, SPY, worth over $500 billion, is tied to the lives of 11 random people born between 1990 and 1993. None of them knew they were involved, but the fund will dissolve 20 years after the last one passes away.
16Vlr TIL that Jani Lane, frontman of the band Warrant, once expressed regret for writing the 1990 song “Cherry Pie,” stating that: "I could shoot myself in the fucking head for writing that song." However, in a later interview, Lane recanted that statement and said that he was interviewed on a bad day.
KOrja TIL the small hole next to the camera on the back of a phone is for a microphone for when shooting video