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TIL when Led Zeppelin reunited in 2007 for a one-off show at the O2 Arena, 20 million ticket requests were made, the record for a single music concert.

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eGAg TIL In WWII, German soldiers, high on a drug called Pervitin (crystal meth), would sprint tirelessly through the Ardennes at the onset of the war. Winston Churchill was dumbfounded at their performance. One German general even boasted that his men stayed awake for 17 straight days.
mery TIL the average person checks their phone 150 times a day, every six-and-a-half minutes.
b95O7 TIL Cloudberries are an extremely rare berry because they cannot be grown commercially and can only harvested in the mountains,mainly Scandinavia.
p8eYQ TIL The International Jew, four-volume set of antisemitic booklets, was written by Henry Ford. He is the only American to be mentioned in Mein Kampf.
QQ1M TIL a man single-handedly planted a 1,360-acre forest at 16 and now lives there at the age of 47