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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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J1yp8 TIL The NASA plans to decomission the ISS by 2031, via controlled re-entry on the pacific ocean
NX4eJ TIL about Li Xouying, who lived through the Massacre of Nanking. While 7 months pregnant, she fought off three Japanese soldiers who stabbed her 37 times; she survived and went on to advocate for the victims.
Gpxg TIL that there is a man in China who rents a house by the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge so that he can save the lives of suicidal jumpers.
YpZYP TIL that in 1980 Glenn Seaborg turned several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold by removing protons and neutrons from the bismuth at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
rj9W TIL Otis Redding recorded “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” 2 days before dying in a plane crash, never knowing it would be a #1 hit & Grammy winner