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TIL there was a Michael Jacksons greatest hits album released 4 years before Off The Wall, his breakthrough solo album

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GAleG TIL the origin of the political terms "left" and "right" originated during the French revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the Ancien Regime (the king) to the president's right and supporters of the revolution to his left.
YGaB TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia, one of the most significant scientific works in history, was nearly left unpublished, as the Royal Society had already spent all their funds printing the hugely unsuccessful ‘History of Fish’
Dbrr TIL that the Beatles reign was only for 7 years from their first album to their last.
6L4X TIL that rats who were trained to press a lever for food stopped pressing the lever once they saw that it also caused another rat to receive an electric shock
Jv4V TIL of the Fermi paradox, a concept that states that the apparent lack of life in the universe is proof that intelligent life always destroys itself before it can expand into space