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TIL in 2023 Andre 3000's song "I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time", off his album New Blue Sun, set the record for the longest song to ever chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The 12-minute and 20-second track hit the chart at No. 90.

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nWEG TIL that in J.J. Abram’s 2009 Star Trek, R2-D2 can be seen floating in the debris field of the starships destroyed by Nero.
Z8eWa TIL it is much more difficult to become a flight attendant in Delta Airlines than it is to be accepted into Harvard. Less than 1% of all applicants ended up having a job in Delta Airlines.
7Dox TIL Albert Einstein wrote a 1946 open letter titled ‘The Negro Question’, in which he concluded, “I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes.”
e06L4 TIL A cat in heat can have multiple eggs, and they can be released over several days of her cycle. If Tabby has chosen more than one Tom during her heat cycle, it's possible she'll be carrying kittens from multiple fathers.
8ebDb TIL James Cameron pitched the sequel to Ridley Scott's "Alien" by walking straight to a whiteboard, writing "Alien" on it, adding an "s" to it to write "Aliens," and then added two vertical lines to the "s" to transform it into "Alien$."