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TIL the 2009 UK Christmas No.1 song (highest selling music single on Christmas Day) was Rage Against the Machines 1992 song “Killing in the Name”.

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jO9M TIL at the 1956 Olympics, an Australian student successfully impersonated an Olympic torchbearer, handing the mayor of Sydney a painted chair leg topped with a pair of burning underwear in front of a crowd of thousands.
l78d1 TIL: A rattlesnake's rattle doesn’t work like a maraca, with little bits shaking inside. The rattle is actually a bunch of loosely interlocking segments made out of keratin.
WkyaN TIL in 2010, shortly after alcoholic energy drinks were introduced, concerns arose that the "energy" component of these beverages masked the feeling of intoxication, leading people to drink more than they realized. Pressure from the FDA resulted in alcoholic energy drinks being essentially banned.
l8G TIL Jesse Pinkman and Walter White in Breaking Bad are named after Mr. Pink and Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs
NP5E TIL archeologists can determine the region of the world a skeleton is from by looking at the isotopes in the teeth.