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TIL film score composer Hans Zimmer played synths in the first ever music video that was aired on MTV (video killed the radio star)

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6Ebk8 TIL after the Civil War the demand for labor grew, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries many children were drawn into the labor force. The number of children under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed from 1.5 million in 1890 to 2 million in 1910.
PDNL TIL “Free the Nipple” movement was founded by a man who believes we descended from aliens and started his own cult.
woJK6 TIL Brasil has a town called Americana inhabited by confederate descendents
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OGL5Y TIL that the oldest writings mentioning yogurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder, who remarked that certain "barbarous nations" knew how "to thicken the milk into a substance with an agreeable acidity".