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DQGNg TIL Alice Mitchell & Freda Ward were an affluent teenage lesbian couple in 1890s southern USA. They became tabloid personalities when Mitchell slit the throat of Ward in 1892. Mitchell spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital until her death in 1898.
ne6Wr TIL that the the music underneath the “Brian Islam and Brucie” cartoon in the Monty Python skit “The Refreshment Room at Bletchley” (episode 9) is “Banjoreno,” by the Dixieland Jug Blowers, and it is on YouTube and Apple Music
6b8 TIL classical music concerts had loud, moving, wild audiences during the performance.
69LkY TIL that Alexander Hamilton who is on the $10 bill is not a native born American but was born in the British Leeward Island (now St. Kitts & Nevis)
a8QQJ TIL Stars suddenly vanish and astronomers don't know why