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TIL The Dark Side of the Moon was #1 for only one week on the Billboard album chart, although it remained on the chart for 741 weeks

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GAgd4 TIL railroad gauges are approximately the same width as old Roman Chariots but that it is largely coincidence and the original gauge of 4’ 8-1/2” was established by a man from the 1820s, who used the gauge because it was common from roads in the area.
v16b7 TIL of a woman sentenced to 141,078 years in prison for running a pyramid scheme. She only served 8 years of her sentence before being released.
R5l48 TIL that almost half of America’s food goes to waste
VMYBD TIL nearly 2,500 atomic weapons have been detonated on Earth - 520 of them atmospheric. In 1958 alone, the US detonated 75 weapons. 928 were detonated in Nevada as late as 1992.
oRn6r TIL that the fat chinese buddha is actually "Budai" a chinese monk from the 10th century, not Gautama.