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TIL: Mr. Brightside by the Killers has been in the UK Single top 100 for 184 weeks since ‘04 (91st currently)

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epal5 TIL the richest man in the world in the 19th century was a merchant in Guangzhou, China
V9wp TIL that after London 2012, Royal Mail repainted postboxes gold in the hometowns of medal winners.
455 TIL the Disney park “EPCOT” was originally supposed to be a Utopian society that could hold 20,000 people.
VMGLk TIL that Porkins (Star Wars Ep IV) and Major Eaton (Raiders of the Lost Ark) were played by the same actor (William Hootkins). Major Eaton was one of the officers who sent Indy on his adventure and at the end of the movie revealed "Top Men" before the warehouse scene.
QR8a TIL Sanal Edamuruku against whom the Mumbai Catholic Church filed a blasphemy case in 2012 for exposing the science behind a miracle has been in Finland since then since he faces indefinite jailtime under blasphemy laws in India for this act