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TIL the band Genesis' debut psychedelic rock album "From Genesis to Revelation" was a huge flop, selling only 650 copies, mainly because record stores incorrectly placed the album in their "religious" section

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kOlKd TIL that eight women that are believed to have had a romantic relationship with Adolf Hitler attempted to commit suicide at least once. Four of them succeeded: two shot themselves, one allegedly threw herself out of a window and the other was Eva Braun who took a cyanide pill at Hitler’s side.
xVeA7 TIL- Boston University did a neuropathologically study on 111 former NFL Players. 110 out of 111 were diagnosed with CTE, the degenerative disease caused by repeated blows to the head.
0woQM TIL the average truck driver drives about 125,000 miles per year and can drive over 5 million miles throughout their careers.
VBYW4 TIL the iconic opening lyrics of Stevie Nicks' 'Edge of Seventeen' were lifted almost verbatim from a menu in a Phoenix restaurant
4XYvN TIL of Clarence Earl Gideon, who from his prison cell in 1962 wrote and mailed a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court. The decision from the resulting case required U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own, per the 6th and 14th amendments.