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TIL that despite the critical success of 2006 album “Back to Black” and that it won multiple Grammies, Amy Winehouse can be technically called a one-hit wonder in the US due to her only cracking the Top 40 once, with her song “Rehab”

Yw9A TIL that in 1254 Möngke Khan, grandson of Genghis, hosted a religious debate between Christian, Muslim and Buddhist theologians. The debate ended with the Buddhists sitting silently as the Christian and Muslim debaters sang loudly at each other. Then they all got drunk.
8eeDa TIL Nobel winner James Watson wrote "The Double Helix" in a fiction like style to attract young people in science. He originally wanted to title his memoir "Honest Jim", and then "Base Pairs", but his co-discoverer Francis Crick had issues with it
R5MWj TIL to decide what measurement system America should use, John Quincy Adams took 3 1/2 years to produce a 268 page Report on Weights and Measures that ultimately concluded changing to the French metric system would be too difficult for the young nation. Congress took no action on the report.
M7QWB TIL Proanthocyanidins, the active ingredient in cranberries that stop UTIs from starting is found at the same level in red delicious and granny smith apples. Unsweetened baking chocolate has 27 times that and dry grape seeds have 90 times.
PYVmE TIL that 2 donkeys that have been together for 10 years at a zoo in Poland were separated after a local politician and parents complained about them mating in front of children. Experts weighted in and a petition to rejoin them got 7,000 signatures so the zoo put them back together.