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TIL that the song Chocolate Salty Balls from South Park reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Charts

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gr1d4 TIL that airline flight attendants aren't paid until the airplane doors are closed, nor are they covered by insurance or workers' compensation until the doors are closed. (Delta, SkyWest and United have forms of coverage.) This policy discourages them from helping put luggage in overhead bins.
b96B0 TIL there's a lesser known third Opium War fought in 1967 on Laos
PY64O TIL: Scientists found microbes buried beneath the sea floor that divide once every 10,000 years and are as much as 100 million years old.
V8yp TIL though alchemists never succeeded in transmuting lead to gold, in 1981 physicists used the particle accelerator at Berkeley to shoot Carbon nuclei at thin foils of Bismuth- the resulting collisions did produced a tiny amount of Gold atoms
LkMd0 TIL after his bomber was hit, RAF gunner Nicholas Alkemade decided to jump from 18,000 feet without a parachute, just moments before his bomber blew up. He landed on top of a snow cover and survived with only a twisted knee. The Germans were so impressed they certified the story as being authentic.