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TIL Carole King has written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005

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JYvO1 TIL this abandoned, unfinished 50,000 square foot mega mansion on 32 acres in Oregon was built by Hollywood Video founder Mark Wattles. It was to feature an indoor sports court/pool and a 60-car subterranean garage. He spent $12 million and then never finished it...
VBMRB TIL “Terminal Lucidity” is the brief return of mental clarity or memory right before before death, in people who suffer from severe dementia and other neurological disorders.
VZY4 TIL only 3 films have swept the “Big Five” Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
16BZD TIL famed Mexican wrestler El Santo's brother was actually the one that innovated a high-flying style of wrestling whereas his impact went beyond the ring and into film.
ayjZ TIL that the original version of the Aladdin story is explicitly set in China by its opening sentences, and Aladdin himself is Chinese