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TIL Bangles' lead singer, Susanna Hoffs was tricked into recording the song "Eternal Flame" while completely naked.

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0dr8j TIL people are still learning Manchu language (used by the Chinese Qing empire) to study ancient Qing texts in Taiwan (but Manchus now speak Mandarin Chinese, and FYI the Chinese most people in the world now learn is a Manchu accent Chinese)
WmkA TIL Greenland sharks can live to be around 400 years old, the world’s oldest living verterbrates.
wmj6 TIL lego used to give away a 14 karat gold lego brick to long serving employees in the 80s
j6vj TIL: The single deadliest event for journalist occurred in the Philippines in 2009 – a candidate for governor’s caravan of 34 journalists and 58 others were murdered, six witnesses assassinated before testifying. ONLY TWO of the hundred+ alleged perpetrators have been charged with murder
JN04 TIL that when Gmail was introduced with an unbelievable 1GB free storage in 2004, Hotmail only offered 2MB. Google announced Gmail on April 1st, and wrote a punny and unprofessional press release, tricking many into thinking it was an April’s fool joke