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TIL that Screamin’ Jay Hawkins had so many illegitimate offspring that a website has been set up to identify them all

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8P8G TIL San Antonio, TX has the highest percentage of gay and lesbian parents in the US
YkOG TIL Playboy refused to print Richard Thompson’s list of best songs of the millennium because he took the task literally and chose songs dating back to 1068
rN484 TIL that in 1992 video game magazine, EGM, published an article that, as an April fools joke, alluded to the presence of a hidden character in Street Fighter named Sheng Long. This joke took off and so many people bought into it they eventually actually did add a Sheng Long character to the series
16GZP TIL about Dr. Peter Bryce who first blew the whistle in 1907 about the abysmal conditions of the Canadian residential school system, which destroyed his career. Today he is getting a plaque installed at the same publishing house that released his work in 1922, to honour his efforts.
Mo9W TIL: That a lake near Whitefish, Montana named “Nigger Lake” was deemed to be too offensive and was renamed…To “Lost Coon Lake.”