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TIL that Tom Petty's first solo album, "Full Moon Fever", which sold over five million copies, spawned five hit singles, and had collaborations with rock legends (George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison) was initially rejected by MCA Records because the top executive didn't hear any good songs

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yrLe TIL that a woman accidentally dropped her engagement ring into a homeless man’s change cup. The man, Billy Ray Harris, returned the ring to the woman. A fund was started by the woman and her husband to raise money for Harris. Three months later they had raised over $190,000.
Ypg5x TIL The NASA Space Shuttles operated with 1mb of RAM in five redundant computers. That's less than the average .mp3 file.
kO7rg TIL of Operation Blue Star. Today marks 36 years since the start of the Sikh genocide. Thousands of Indian army troops were deployed to kill innocent Sikhs under the orders of Indra Gandhi. Over the 10 days Sikhs were looted, tortured & murdered.
pYmBA TIL that in 1956, the US Air Force lost control of an unmanned drone and tried to shoot it down. Jet fighters fired 208 rockets at the drone. They all missed; the rockets started fires on the ground, and the drone crashed by itself when it ran out of fuel.
loRNA TIL 40% of the population in India speaks Hindi, and 8% speak Bengali, making it the second most widely spoken language. Around 10% of India’s population speak English, but it is only a first language for 0.019%