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TIL that 'Uptown Funk' was released over a month early in the UK owing to a performance by a contestant on The X Factor, which resulted in that version going to #1 on iTunes

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5YvYD TIL Christine Chubbuck was an American television news reporter who was the first person to commit suicide live on television. Her death inspired the 1976 film Network.
GJeG TIL that many countries have built wildlife crossings; structures that allow animals to cross man made barriers. In the US they have been used to protect Mountain Goats in Montana, Spotted Salamanders in Massachusetts, Bighorn Sheep in Colorado, Desert Tortoises, and endangered Florida Panthers
1abLr TIL the second tallest monument in Arlington National Cemetery is a 32' tall bronze sculpture to Confederacy titled "New South" by the sculptor, and the Daughters of the Confederacy hold Confederate memorial day ceremonies there to this day.
9YGa6 TIL the Olympic Games paused for 1500 years and then resumed in 1896.
1ap17 TIL William Leonard Pickard, the guy who had a lab in a missile silo and was once responsible for a third of global LSD supply, predicted the fentanyl fentanyl epidemic in the 90's