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TIL The 1971 Coca-Cola ad āIād Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)ā featured a group of young multicultural people lip-synching the song on a hill to represent global unity. The South African government requested a version of the ad but without the black actors. Coca Cola refused
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TIL the word quarantine comes from the Venetian "quaranta" meaning 40, for the 40 days that ships were supposed to stay off the coast in Europe to prevent the spread of the black death in the 1300s
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TIL that singer-songwriter Tori Amos, received a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five. She is the youngest person ever to have been admitted. At the age of eleven, she was expelled for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination".