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TIL Frank Sinatra's Ultimate Christmas album entered the Top 10 on Billboard for the first time in over a decade. He's had 33 Top 10 sets in his career.

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grxX7 TIL about the 15-in Rodman Cannon. The balls fired by the Rodman were 500 to 600lb, and took 50lb of black powder to shoot their shot.
6nn7 TIL of Bill Morgan who, after being deemed clinically dead for 14 minutes from suffering a heart attack, had won the lottery soon after. When the local news approached him to publish his story, Morgan miraculously won the lottery yet again when filming a reenactment of him with a scratchcard
b8y4 TIL that the person who invented the stop sign, the pedestrian crosswalk, the traffic circle, the one-way street, the taxi stand, and pedestrian safety islands, William Phelps Eno, never learned how to drive.
Eg06w TIL Joaquin's brother, River Phoenix, died outside a club owned by Johnny Depp after doing drugs for several days with the guitar player from RHCP. He was playing in a band Johnny Depp, Flea, and Frusciante were in and had a heart attack in the middle of a song.
a8GrJ TIL that female Adélie penguins trade stones for sex during a shortage of stones. Extra-pair copulation often occurs at the male's nesting site, after which the female takes one or more stones. In contrast, when it occurs at the female's nesting site, the male doesn’t take a stone.