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TIL that the Vincent Price's spoken word portion of "Thriller" was written the day of recording

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loKva TIL that people from other countries also adopt American babies (referred to as an “outgoing adoption”) and the babies are primarily all African American
jN1AE TIL the flag of the Philippines is flown with the red side on the upper side in times of war and the blue side on the upper side during times of peace.
nWXxo TIL the BIPM doesn't use a physical rod that's exactly 1 metre similar to the physical "Kilogram" specimen, instead use concise measurement of light & time defined in 1984 by the CGPM as the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 secs with time measured by a cesium-133 atomic clock.
QNK1L TIL that the best-selling video game of all time goes to the classic known as Tetris. IGN says 520 million copies of Tetris have been sold, citing data from The Tetris Company.
YpdMA TIL that the longest ice hockey game in history was game 5 of one of the quarter-finals of the 2016-17 Norwegian league playoffs. The game went into octuple overtime for a total of 157:14 of overtime, and 217:14 of hockey played. The game started at 18:00 and ended at 2:32 the next morning