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TIL that Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor, and John Taylor, all of Duran Duran are not in any way related!

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Me88a TIL Taylor Swift used facial recognition at a concert in 2018 to identify known stalkers. The photos were taken at a rehearsal clip photo booth and transmitted to s control center for processing, without the fans knowledge
694Ew TIL on January 1, 1999, MTV2 played the music video "1999" by Prince for 24 hours straight.
b9EwE TIL Diego is a hoodland tortoise who was a part of a breeding programme. He fathered 900 offsrping, and is responsible for bringing the population out of near extinction to a 2000 strong population today.
OG0vR TIL: Divers searching for a sunken World War II-era aircraft, instead came across a 15 by 15-foot section of the Challenger Space Shuttle 37 years after it exploded off the Florida coast. After the explosion, the salvage effort had recovered 47% of the shuttle.
ne0yY TIL British colonizers infected Tasmanian Aboriginal women with venereal diseases that left a significant percentage of the population unable to reproduce. This was one of several factors leading the complete eradication of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.