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TIL Tommy Smothers was present for the recording of Give Peace A Chance

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QNop6 TIL Cleopatra married her own brothers.
rR0r0 TIL that Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury made a song together
rND9o TIL that the papal election following the death of Pope Clement IV lasted three years (1268–1271) to the point that the magistrates of Viterbo locked the cardinals in, reduced their rations to bread and water and removed the roof of the house the cardinals were
vM1K TIL In 1993, Dateline NBC strapped model rocket engines to GM trucks for a televised crash-test so the trucks would explode on impact. After a GM lawsuit, three producers were fired and the reporter demoted.
XEOxr According to the independent research group Shrink That Footprint, apartments in Hong Kong are on average the smallest in the world (484 sq ft). The average one-bed flat size in Manhattan, New York, is 716 sq ft, in London, it is 550 sq ft. And soon, by converting drainpipes into homes, flats in Hong Kong are set to shrink even more.