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TIL that Bruce Springsteen has only had two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: Manfred Mann's Earth Band's 1977 cover of his song "Blinded By The Light" and 1985's "We Are The World," which he sang with a large ensemble of famous musicians. His song "Dancing in the Dark" only got to #2.

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X0kWX TIL: SS Christopher Columbus, the only 'Whaleback' ship ever built for passenger service, carried more passengers in her 40-year career than any other ship on the Great Lakes.
NXpoe Today I learned, Friday the 13th is a reference to the massacre of the Knights Templar in 1307
5ln9 TIL if each atom of air you inhaled were a grain of sand, every breath you took would cover the entire United States to the depth of an eight-story building.
y4W8 Today I learned that pubic lice populations are in decline due to loss of habitat.
0dQrj TIL of the most enigmatic structure in cell biology: the Vault. Often missing from science text books due to the mysterious nature of their existence, it has been 40 years since the discovery of these giant, half-empty structures, produced within nearly every cell, of every animals, on the planet.