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TIL the Donovan song "Mellow Yellow" was about vibrators

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XE0pX TIL There has not been a year in the last 14 years when Mr. Brightside by the Killers was not in the UK top 100 chart and at 189 weeks, it holds the record for the most weeks in the top 100
lomaV TIL the American Cheetah, Miracinonyx trumani, is thought to be the main reason why Pronghorn are the fastest mammals in the Western Hemisphere, as the are much faster than any extant predator.
GYgN TIL that unpaid bills can send you to jail in many U.S. states, even though debtors’ prisons have been abolished since 1833.
R7pbj TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had nominated St. Isidore of Seville to be the patron saint of the Internet, a seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who tried to record everything ever known.
wvm1 TIL that from the late 18th to mid-19th century, it was considered bad for women to read novels based on the belief that women were not “able to differentiate between fiction and life.”