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Today I learned that being 4-10" qualifies a person with Dwarfism

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KYL19 TIL The performer of the "Amen break" which is one of the most sampled drum breaks in popular music with over 1000 samples, died homeless and destitute without receiving any royalties.
b6RKj TIL: People accused of being witches during the witch trials in colonial New England weren't' burned at stake, they were hanged. One man who was accused of Witchcraft died by pressed to death by heavy stones, another was jailed.
ZnL4 TIL United States, Myanmar and Liberia are the only countries which have not officially adopted the metric system
6XmW TIL David Yost, the Blue Power Ranger in the original “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” quit because of excessive homophobic harassment he endured on set from the production crew
v1LYj TIL that Johnny Cash was the first man outside the Soviet Union to learn of Stalin's death due to working as a Morse code operator, intercepting enemy military messages.