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TIL that the first charting song of The Jonas Brothers, Year 3000, is a cover originally done by the British punk band, Busted.

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j6N1a TIL of the Battle of May Island, a series of accidental collisions during WWI among Royal Navy vessels that resulted in 2 destroyed submarines, 3 damaged subs, 1 damaged cruiser, and 105 total deaths. No enemy forces were present.
Xm9r TIL J.R.R. Tolkien typed the entire “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy while using only two fingers. It ran to over 1,200 pages and took him 14 years.
OGAY6 TIL flying has become so reliable that you could fly every day for an average of 123,000 years before being in a fatal crash.
oR7BL TIL That Terry Pratchett, famously known as the author of the Discworld series, was an avid gamer! So much so, that he was even a modder for Oblivion and later, Skyrim!
NXZle TIL HBO cancelled Game of Thrones spin-off Bloodmoon in 2019 after spending $30 million on its pilot. HBO's content chief explained that it was a hard project because George RR Martin had only written about 8 lines of text for the era the show was set in, so a lot more invention was required.