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TIL Jerry Lee Lewis released his album "Last Man Standing" in 2006 because Lewis was the last survivor from the generation of 1950s Sun Studios recording artists such as Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley. Lewis lived until 2022

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XEm5P TIL after sensing a strong rise in Jewish prejudice, Einstein fled Germany a month before Hitler rose to power, avoiding the Holocaust. After reading what ended up happening, Einstein never set foot in Germany again and died in the US in 1955.
GYkAg TIL That Madagascar wildlife is so unique that over 90% of it are endemic species that can't be found anywhere else on Earth. Reason for that is that it has been isolated for 88 millions years from other land masses.
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EgVx7 TIL A stray cosmic ray is believed to have struck a computer during an 2003 Belgian municipal election and given one of the candidates exactly 4,096 more votes than she should have gotten.