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TIL Fleetwood Mac had one of 2022's top-selling albums, even though it came out in 1977.

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1aQOX TIL that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 originally had the Twin Towers in the game, but they were removed a week after the attack
v1mO8 TIL that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people. Completely delegitimizing any ancestral claim to Palestine.
grZ4X TIL that medieval monks inadvertently documented some of the largest volcanic eruptions in history by studying historical observations of lunar eclipses.
VMKlG TIL the canonical reason the documentary crew is filming the office in “The Office (u.s.) “ is to investigate the workplace environment after an employee committed suicide
waxE TIL Engineers used to rely on imprecise calculations with slide rules that only showed three decimal points but designed the Empire State Building, Saturn V rocket with them. As a result, they designed conservatively by making walls thicker and bridges stronger than needed