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TIL the first rap single to reach #1 in the US was Ice Ice Baby in 1990. The first rap single to reach #1 in Canada was Rapper’s Delight in 1980

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GjG7 TIL nodding your head to mean “yes” and shaking your head to mean “no” is common among people of every country in the entire world, except Bulgaria and southern Albania, where they mean the opposite.
J1P6k TIL that 92 people have died from snakebites during religious ceremonies.
d8VV8 TIL the term ’incel’ was coined by a woman. She intended it as a community for lonely people, and is shocked by its misogynistic turn.
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JxeQ TIL that in 1981, a Turkish man shot Pope John Paul II four times but didn’t kill him. After the Pope recovered, he visited the assassin in prison forgave him. The assassin was pardoned at the Pope’s request and 33 years after his crime, he visited Vatican City and laid flowers on the Pope’s tomb.