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TIL that as a solo artist, duo, trio, quartet, quintet and musical ensemble, Paul McCartney is the only artist to have reached the top of the UK charts.

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QJ176 TIL of Jared Ream, card-carrying member of American Coaster Enthusiasts. At 430 lbs, he got rejected from Cedar Point's "Millenium Force", unable to buckle the restraint. The desire to ride Kings Island's new giga-coaster "Orion" motivated him to lose 190 lbs, so he was able to ride coasters again.
69A87 TIL if you plug a USB 3.0 cable in too slowly, it gets recognized as a USB 2.0 connection
oBQv8 TIL in 2008, after learning that Britney Spears was going through a hard time, Eric Idle changed a lyric referencing Britney in the song “Diva’s Lament” from his musical Spamalot “because we don't laugh at sad people.”
8aaDK TIL Why Planes Aren’t Flying Any Faster—and Won’t Any Time Soon
9wJnQ TIL Of the great oxydation event: a single type of oxygen producing bacteria is responsible for terraforming earth from largely oxygen free to the earth we know today, giving rise to oxygen based life and causing a mass extinction of anaerobic life forms, wiping out about 80% of them