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Today I Learned that Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album took 17 Years to become certified Platinum.

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kJWE TIL: If you zoom all the way in on the White House in Google Maps, you can get a virtual tour!
W89A TIL: of the post of “Queen’s Guide to the Sands”. The holder is the official guide to crossing the dangerous mudflats of Morcambe Bay, UK. Paid £15 a year but is given a 700yo cottage to live in, the current holder is Cecil Robinson since 1963
oG8L TIL the writers of Parks & Rec didn’t know Nick Offerman could already play the saxophone when they made his character Ron Swanson a secret saxophone player
l57N TIL: In 2007, British Pop singer Lily Allen released a song about her lazy brother Alfie, who sits in his room all day watching TV and smoking weed. In the song she told him to grow up and get a job. Alfie Allen is probably better known today as the actor who plays Theon Greyjoy on Game of Thrones.
JLav TIL a blonde, blue eyed Frenchman moved to London, pretended to be from Taiwan, and became the most famous “Asian” in 18th Century England. He even wrote an influential book about Asia even though he had never been there and had no idea what he was talking about.