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TIL the Twitter handle “Apple” has 31.4k followers… and zero tweets.

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KmjQ TIL Michael Jackson became the first artist in history to have a top 10 single in five different decades (six decades if his Jackson 5 tenure is included).
61m TIL Monks in northern Japan would practice self-mummification. A practice in which they would exercise rigorously to rid all body fat from their system, begin drinking a poisonous tea, and remain in a tiny tomb in the lotus position until confirmed dead. The process took over 3000 days.
Z6LQ TIL a Roman politician and over 300 of his supporters were beaten to death with clubs by the Roman Senate for trying to redistribute land to the poor that was illegally acquired by the wealthy land owners.
VMynB TIL that Battlefield Earth, a 1982 science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, has been praised by numerous fantasy and science fiction authors, among them Neil Gaiman, Frederik Pohl, and Kevin J. Anderson
kZ0E TIL Joan Ginther won millions four times from Scratch off tickets. Last prize….10 million.