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TIL that Lady Gaga is the only female artist to achieve four singles each selling at least 10 million copies globally.

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mx5Zv TIL Sickle Cell Anemia (a condition which disproportionately afflicts Africans) provides protection against Malaria. It is believed that the reason why Africans are more likely to have S.C.A. is Africans benefited from the condition from living in a Malaria risk location.
96br TIL it is illegal to touch a pregnant woman’s belly in Pennsylvania
0wnjp TIL About James Arthur Ray, an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker who was worth $10 million when he killed three people in a sweat lodge. After 20 months in jail he was released and went right back to the same career
GYEy1 TIL about Peggy Frank, a longtime U.S. postal carrier, who died of hyperthermia while delivering mail in 117 degree weather. Most of the US Postal Services' 230,000 vehicles do not have air conditioning.
VBom4 TIL That in 1927, the US Navy's USS Los Angeles was caught by a wind gust while its nose was connected to a dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, and did a full 180 degree rotation.