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TIL No other album from the 1970s matches the streaming dominance, and its ability to place multiple tracks in Spotify’s Billions Club than Fleetwood Mac's Rumors album.

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p6Lb TIL on April 1, 1980, BBC news ervice “reported” that the Big Ben will get a digital readout, and that the clock hands will be given to the first four listeners to call. Later on, BBC received a massive amount of phone calls from angry protestors, and ended up spending several days to apologize.
OGGgR TIL that lobe-finned fish are more closely related to humans than to fish such as trout or sharks!
MeeLb TIL In 1992, Althea Garrison (R) was the first transgender person to be elected to a state legislature in the United States, but did not campaign as an openly transgender person during her race.
OoGKe TIL roman emperor Diocletian retired in 305 AD to grow cabbages and tend to his vegetable gardens.
0dyy5 TIL that Michael James Shaughnessy, 4th Baron Shaughnessy of Montreal, died in 2007 without any close heirs. So, the aristocratic title went to his second cousin: The guy who played the dad in "The Nanny."