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TIL that Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon album remained on the Billboard 200 list for 15 years straight.

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Yp0bA TIL Disney’s Tower of Terror drop tower has been developed by Otis, whose normal job is to make elevator rides as smoothly as possible
6lem TIL after President Garfield was shot during an assassination attempt in 1881, he was kept alive for several days through rectal feeding, and was even given drams of whisky via his butt. The Dr who treated him was named Dr Doctor.
OoGQL In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic explorer and volcanologist Stephanie Grocke explains what might be driving Santiaguito’s almost hourly eruptions.
w0aY TIL In the 1930’s, amidst wide spread poverty, flour mills realised that some woman were using sacks to make clothes for their children. In response, the flour mills started using fabric with flowers printed on for their sacks.
1RPO TIL that an African American, Madam C.J. Walker, was the first female millionaire in the United States.