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TIL a random teen record store employee saved Billy Joel's career by launching a campaign to revive Piano Man months after Columbia Records left it for dead.

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grnb8 TIL due to superstition surrounding blood types influencing personality traits in Japan and South Korea, some have experienced “bura-hara”- a blood type related harassment that can lead to bullying, less job opportunities, and troubles with romantic relationships.
ZMeY TIL the reply to the first tweet ever was “f*ck you”
9YDlm TIL that out at sea, a tsunami is only about a metre high, and could pass a boat without being noticed. As it approaches the shore, it’s the sudden deceleration from about 800km/h to 50km/h which creates the immense wave
G6a7 TIL that the movie ‘A Fish Called Wanda’ was so funny that an audience member died from laughter
Lkpmm TIL about the Florida fairy shrimp, which was discovered in 1952 to be a unique species of fairy shrimp specific to a single pond in Gainesville, Florida. When researchers returned to that pond in 2011, they realized it had been filled in for development, thereby causing the species to go extinct.