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TIL it’s estimated that Bing Crosby recordings filled more than half of the radio time allocated to recorded music in 1948.

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YpKVB TIL of Hellenism, the modern day revival of the ancient Greek religion
M7Adb TIL South San Francisco (a city distinct from San Francisco) does not border San Francisco at all. In fact, they're not even in the same county. Several cities separate the two.
9YBaG TIL of a city in the U.S. called George, Washington. The name was chosen by Charlie Brown, a local pharmacist, to honour the first U.S. president.
69MwY TIL there are active termite colonies in South Africa as old as 34,000 years. There were still sabertooth tigers roaming the earth when these mounds were started.
NnaM TIL that 13 years ago today Apple released the very first iPod with a whopping 5GB of internal storage