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TIL that BONO is the only human to have been nominated for an Oscar, a Grammy and a Nobel prize

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kJ0AW TIL that the reason Washington DC was created as a perfect square was due to vague wording in The Constitution in which it stated that the capital district must be "10 miles square".
MeklK TIL that Black Sabbath's self-titled debut album, was recorded in a single 12-hour jam session.
Deep TIl that in the game “The Darkness” the entire film, To Kill A Mockingbird is shown on a tv, along with 2 other films, an episode of Flash Gordon, and episodes of Popeye.
VkL0 TIL In 1968 a car, transporting 300M Yen (9M USD) was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming that the car had been rigged with explosives. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the ‘cop’ just drove away. The robbery remains unsolved.
vk5L TIL On July 23, 2012, Earth had a near miss with a solar flare. Had it occurred a week earlier, it would’ve wiped out communication networks, GPS and electrical grids.