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TIL When "Foolish Beat" by Debbie Gibson went #1 in 1988 she became the youngest artist (at 17) ever to have written, produced, and performed a Billboard number-one single, as entered in the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records, a record she continues to hold 32 years later...

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E1p5o TIL the planet Earth is approximately halfway between the formation of the previous super continent "Pangea", which formed about 300 million years ago and existed until about 150 million years ago, and the next possible super continent, which may form in the future in about 250 million years
1xxV TIL that Alice Wadsworth, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, argued in 1917 against granting women the right to vote in part because “It would be an official endorsement of nagging as national policy.”
gMloy TIL When Hitler adopted the undercut hairstyle, his legion of blonde (undercut) haired, blue-eyed Aryans quickly followed suit, apparently requesting the style because it eased the wearing and removing of their helmets. The style resurfaced in the 1980s and again in the 2010s
MLAB TIL the US State Department charges a fee of $2,350 to any individual who wishes to renounce his or her American citizenship.
neLGW TIL there are 5 countries without a written, codified constitution: New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Israel and Saudi Arabia. They rely instead on a conjunction of separate documents and precedents for legal decision-making.