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TIL that Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.

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Z8d0Q TIL Christopher Nolan waited to make Dunkirk until he had earned the trust of a major studio to let him make it as a pure British film, but with an American budget. He said, "Hollywood studios are interested in films about Americans, and there were no Americans involved."
xVDbb TIL Freddie Oversteegen used to seduce SS men in Holland, take them into the woods and shoot them.
XEM0R TIL The Congo River is the deepest river in the world, at over 750 feet deep in places (currents make it hard to know how much deeper it is). It also has the most endemic species of any river.
e0OAk TIL Tajmahal was so bright even at midnight, INDIA covered it up with forest of twigs and leaves during 1971 INDO-PAK war, so that it can't be used as a reference point by PAK aircrafts.
Y7KnZ TIL that even though Winston Churchill's mother was a United States citizen, Churchill could not claim US citizenship because before 1934 you could not claim citizenship through your mother.