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TIL of the 121 songs Billy Joel recorded, 33 (27%) of them were top 40 hits.

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M7A1m TIL about Ruth Harkness, the chain-smoking American heiress who brought the first live panda out of China
wLWAM TIL how maglev trains work from a Professor in 1975. He shows how to overcome the flipping magnets problem and how to move the train along with magnetism.
4k44w TIL The FBI attempted to bribe members of congress in the 80s by forming a fake company. A quarter of all members who were tested accepted the bribe, and were eventually convicted.
VMwB4 TIL that after tourists to a Cotswold village of England complained about a parked yellow car "ruining their picture perfect photos", and even vandalising said car, hundreds of drivers across the country took their own yellow cars down to the village in defiance
gMB6A TIL that Madonna holds the Billboard record for most number 2 singles in the US