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TIL Led Zeppelin is the name of an entire band and not one singer...

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oYxE TIL a Chinese doctor spent 6 years illegally building a mountainous stone penthouse on top of a residential urban tower, “complete with boulders, trees, gardens, pools and ponds.”
JDKj TIL Bill Murray once showed up at a student house party in Scotland. He drank their Vodka out of a coffee cup and did their dishes.
0Ep5 TIL in June 2001 the longest train in the world set out across Western Australia. It was over 7 kilometres long and weighed nearly 100,000 tons.
R7Vb7 TIL of the Oakland Buddha, a statue placed on a trash-ridden street corner by a non-Buddhist neighbor who was fed up with the trash. He thought the statue might 'shift the energy in the neighborhood.' It has since become a shrine and gathering place for Vietnamese residents.
m1vgM TIL mayday as a distress call is French M'aider.