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TIL Shel Silverstein wrote all the songs on Dr. Hook's album Sloppy Seconds

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5YxnB TIL about Nikolai Pavlenko, a Soviet forger who ran a real but unauthorized construction organization in USSR. Since it was more efficient than the state ones, he was charged with undermining USSR by running an efficient organization.
d8xeZ TIL Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had to submit Tetris scores to Nintendo Power under fake names because he topped the charts for so long they stopped printing his scores
QNaMa TIL: That the Beijing Weather Modification Office were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics were free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.
VB18p TIL Richard Nixon's VP Spiro Agnew borrowed $200k ($1.4m today) from Frank Sinatra to pay off tax debts.
LkDPd TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size while maintaining its price so that consumers may unknowingly pay the same for less. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, 2,529 supermarket products decreased in size or weight between 2012 and 2017.