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TIL The song "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard originally had lyrics about anal sex

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XEwyr TIL of Jeremiah Horrocks who died 23 years old, was the only person to predict the transit of Venus in front of the sun in 1639, and one of only two people in the world to witness it, ...the first two ever, and likely the first in 600+ years.
4Xpva TIL that the paragraph from "Cambridge University" that you can read despite the "jumbled" order of the letters isn't so jumbled, wasn't from Cambridge, the "researcher" doesn't exist, and the supposed effect doesn't really work.
XjN6 TIL that tear gas is a chemical weapon banned at war, but police are still allowed to use it on protesters.
d8gv7 TIL In the 90s the NBA Supersonics owner demanded Adam Sandler to stop playing The Chanukah Song that mentioned the team's owner to be Jewish since at the moment of composing it there was another owner. Years later after the incident a Jewish man bought the team making the song accurate again.
b9D7a TIL that some people don't have an inner internal monologue.