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TIL Tracy Chapman was able to debut her song "Fast Car" to over 600 million people due to Stevie Wonder losing an important hard drive needed to do his own performance,

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MEB8 TIL Anne Frank detailed her sexual exploration in her original diary but it was later edited out by her father.
VBgeB TIL If Earth was 50% larger in diameter we would not be able to venture into space using rockets.
Zpgvv TIL about the Chapati movement of 1857 in India where thousands of flatbreads were mysteriously distributed across North Indian villages. It is still a mystery as to who did this and why with both local Indians and the British assuming it was the other's doings
K5GG [TIL] that after WW2, France sent 49 (one for each state) special boxcars filled with gifts to the US, thanking the nation and her people for their help in World War Two. The train was called the “Merci Train.”
jN4OQ TIL that 55 million years ago the North Pole had the climate of today's Miami