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TIL that a teenage girl invented the genre of science fiction

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jNWVp TIL of Georgy Malenkov. Though he led the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, he eventually lost an internal power struggle with Khrushchev. He was demoted to be a manager of a hydroelectric plant in Kazakhstan and lived out the rest of his life in utter obscurity
e446 TIL that it is a myth that violence against women rises on Super Bowl Sunday.
vP8e7 TIL Prolific author, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Crichton wrote a video game called Amazon for the Apple II series computer in 1984
AbQn TIL The song The Overload by Talking Heads was inspired by Joy Division. However, none of the members of Talking Heads had heard Joy Division’s music before the song was written or recorded, and it was instead inspired by what they imagined Joy Division sounded like, according to the music press.
VMxJk TIL the 12 days of Christmas start on December 25 (rather than leading up to Christmas Day).