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TIL in the Recording Industry Association of America named Hall & Oates the most successful duo in rock history with six #1 hits on the Billboard charts and 29 of their 33 singles charting on the Billboard Hot 100

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wAMM TIL Paul McCartney covered his own album “Ram” entirely in an “Easy Listening” format under the name Percy Thrillington.
m1jPP TIL John Patrick Hannan escaped from prison in 1955 by scaling the walls with knotted sheets just 30 days into a 21-month sentence for car theft and assaulting two officers. As of 2023, he had proceeded to evade capture and holds the world record for longest escape from custody.
7roRZ TIL A Japanese Interpreter for Jimmy Carter Once Said “President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh.”
XELek TIL It is a popular myth that a komodo dragon's bite causes death because the mouth of a komodo dragon is so filthy that the bitten animal ultimately dies of a bacterial infection. In fact, a komodo dragon's mouth is just as clean as most animals and it instead relies on venom to hunt prey.
XEDer TIL President Garfield’s cause of death wasn’t so much the bullet wound from his assassination attempt as much as it was the treatment he received afterward. His doctors’ clumsy, unsanitary attempts to heal him resulted in a severe, painful infection that killed him three months later.