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TIL Elvis Presley recorded over 600 songs during his lifetime, but he didn’t write any of them.

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GA9kE TIL that Meriwether Lewis suffered bouts of depression and probably committed suicide only a few years after completing the famous Lewis and Clark expedition.
N7wJb TIL in 2008 Prince Charles paid a nearly 400 years old debt of £453.15, made by King Charles II, who did not have enough money for the clothes of his soldiers, before the last battle of the British civil war.
x6L90 TIL that there are a total of 33 places named Aberdeen worldwide
N6A1 TIL that when Joseph Stalin’s wife died he stated, “This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.” He became so distraught during her burial that he threw himself into her open grave and had to be dragged out.
XEMZQ TIL in Outback Australia in areas where nobody used to worry about drink driving, distances were often measured in beers. The distance to a nearby town could be ‘only a sixpack’ but a longer trip to the nearest city could be as far as 'a carton’