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TIL the 1999 multiple-platinum selling album “Play” by Moby was initially a failure with poor sales and little airplay. The first show to support the album was attended by about 40 people only. Not until the songs were licensed to films, TV shows and commercials that the album became a smash hit.

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TIL the 1999 multiple-platinum selling album “Play” by Moby was initially a failure with poor sales and little airplay. The first show to support the album was attended by about 40 people only. Not until the songs were licensed to films, TV shows and commercials that the album became a smash hit.

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TIL Kraft Foods paid for a research study at Rutgers University to confirm that Velveeta cheese had nutritional benefits, and soon after, the American Medical Association gave Velveeta its stamp of approval, citing that the product had all the necessary nutritional value to build “firm flesh.”

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TIL that for about four months, the most valuable sports card in history was a Mike Trout rookie card, sold for $3.9M in 2020. Prior to that sale, Honus Wagner’s iconic T206 had been considered the most valuable card since at least 1933. The record is now held by a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle ($12.6M).

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TIL about the Volkssturm, Nazi Germany’s last-ditch army that conscripted men 16-60 who weren’t already serving. As the situation got desperate in 1944-45, women and disabled WWI veterans were conscripted, armed with outdated and improvised weaponry, uniformed in just an armband and sent to Berlin.

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