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TIL that the first three fictional artists to reach number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 were all groups: the Chipmunks, the Archies and the Partridge Family.

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M74v8 TIL 3 men escaped Alcatraz in a raft made of raincoats. The FBI never found them.
4XRYg TIL about Michael Gillespie, a computer repair shop employee who decrypts ransomware in his downtime and helps victims for free. The FBI honored him with a Community Leadership Award in 2017.
WpbL TIL, That a Mexican man who accidentally killed his cousin while drunk was sentenced to death by being buried with alive with the cousin whom he had killed.
M77d0 TIL that a former Danish fossil fuel company (DONG, now Ørsted) switched to 85 % renewable energy generation in just 8 years. Their investments in wind technology (several tens of billions of euros) are largely responsible for advancements in wind power and why it is so cheap today.
Mgkb TIL there was Russian novel published in 1999 which re-tells The Lord of The Rings from Sauron’s perspective