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TIL in 1986, the band Genesis and four out of the five associate members as solo artists, had songs in the Billboard Top 40 in the same calendar year

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D1DJv TIL that the national bird of Lebanon is the Pheonix
Yp5xP TIL that James Bond creator Ian Fleming named one of his most famous villains, Auric Goldfinger, after the architect in revenge for his bulldozing of a number of Victorian villas in order to build his own modern home at Willow Road in Hampstead.
OG6ae TIL: Ants invented agriculture 50-60 million years ago, right around the time that the first primates appear in the fossil record. These ants cultivate a domesticated fungus for food in underground greenhouses and tend to it through watering, weeding, and pest/disease control.
8aknb TIL: Howard Ulrich and his 7-year old son were fishing in Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958 when a landslide generated a 1,720ft tsunami, the largest in recorded history. He and his son both miraculously survived, being found nearly a mile from where they were anchored at the time the wave hit their boat.
R5gBQ TIL In 1924 Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but only served 8 months. He and his Nazi party tried to overthrow the Weimar government which eventually led to his sentence. The government was afraid of angering his political base so they reduced the sentence to only 8 months.