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TIL despite selling over 35 million albums, the Grateful Dead have only had one song on the Billboard top 40: 1987’s “Touch of Grey”

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M7RGK TIL that the vaguely named vegetable oil is not derived from corn, wheat, or a variety of other vegetables but almost always soybean oil.
ANaxx TIL: Napoleon Bonaparte refused to open his mail for three weeks. By that time, most of the issues raised in the letters had resolved themselves and no longer required his attention.
KZo4 TIL Made in China stickers are made in Korea.
78YPr TIL in 2013, a body of a woman was found in a water tank on the roof of a hotel in LA after guests of the hotel began complaining about low water pressure and water that was "colored black and had an unusual taste".
Bg18r TIL in 2011, a 16 year old teenager repelled down into a San Francisco dealership and stole Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini