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TIL that Peter Gabriel's only US #1 single ("Sledgehammer") knocked his former band Genesis' only US #1 single ("Invisible Touch") off the top of the charts in 1986.

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60OZ TIL that whales’ throats and blowholes aren’t connected. Also, what they spray isn’t water, but a mixture of condensation and mucus.
nWlb TIL that in 1860 when Julia Pastrana, a woman who was very hairy and had ape like facial features, died, her husband mummified her and their dead baby’s remains to further exploit them at “freak shows.” Julia’s corpse was buried just this year and the baby’s corpse was eaten by mice in 1976.
XZmE TIL that the United States has surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia and now produces more oil and natural gas than any other country in the world
QNPgk TIL the Unabomer, Ted Kaczynski, randomly chose his victims from library research.
VMN70 TIL about Phocion, an Athenian statesman who was so humble and frugal that he was known simply as "The Good", was elected a record 45 times as Strategos (head of the military) and singlehandedly convinced Alexander the Great to spare Athens and focus on war with Persia instead.