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TIL Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind was sampled from Love On a Two Way Street by The Moments (1970)

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ZpdgG TIL: Japanese Gossip Youtuber, GaaSyy, won an election, but became the first parliament member to be expelled in 72 years for not showing up for work in almost a year. He campaigned from Dubai using his 1.2 million subscribers and won the election. However, he never returned to Japan.
x6rLo TIL about Duncraig railway station in Scotland. Opened in 1897, it was supposed to close in 1964 as part of rail network restructuring. However, it reopened in 1976, after local train drivers refused to acknowledge the station's closure for the intervening 11 years. The station is still open today
R7Vpj TIL Ayrton Senna had planned to raise an Austrian flag in honour of Roland Ratzenberger after he crashed and died in 1994 San Marino Grand Prix qualifiers. Senna also died in that very race. When track officials examined Sennas car, they found the furled Austrian flag in the wreckage.
OoA7e TIL this purple snailfish was filmed at a depth of 5 miles using a deep sea camera-equipped lander in the Pacific Ocean's Atacama Trench located off the coast of Peru and Chile in 2018 making it the first time to ever see this species. Pink and blue snailfish were also filmed during the expedition.
1no4 TIL Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay.