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TIL the faces on the album cover for The Division Bell by Pink Floyd, are real statues and are 2 stories high

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69AQ TIL the ambient air in eight Italian cities has been found to contain low levels of cocaine and marijuana
B77y TIL The hit song “Blinded by the Light” was written by and originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen, who made it by going through a rhyming dictionary and looking for rhymes and ended up being unsuccessful, but was covered by Manfred Man and became a #1 hit.
loBV5 TIL that four times as many people are killed by ants every year than are killed by sharks.
LQPp TIL the World’s Greatest Living Explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, was thrown out of the SAS for blowing upa movie set, climbed Everest to get rid of his vertigo, did 7 marathons in 7 days a few months after heart bypass surgery, amputated his own fingers and was considered for the role of James Bond.
grON8 TIL since only five triple rainbows had been reported to science in the previous 250 years, many scientists had written them off as myths. The first photographic proof of a triple rainbow did not appear in a scholarly publication until 2011.