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TIL that Cher has had a single reach Number 1 on a Billboard chart in each of the last SEVEN decades.

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Z8yPY TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
xVj67 TIL in 1982 the people of Greenland voted to leave the European Union which they did in 1985 and are still today not part of it.
p84b TIL red sapphires are so rare, they’re given another name: rubies
R1e6 TIL Zippers Are Top Cause of Penile Trauma in US
88a4 TIL that anime production typically involves employing the services of 2,000 people per episode around the world and costs US$100,000-300,000 per episode