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TIL The royalties from Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” go to a soup kitchen in the ghetto he grew up in.

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4krnN TIL Astrologers do not agree on when the Age of Aquarius will start or even if it has already started
VPMG TIL that the brightest supernova we have ever witnessed had a kill radius of 500-1000 light years, meaning it would have sterilized millions of habitable planets.
R7G96 TIL that Aboriginal Australians often traveled to Indonesia for trade, and when British explorers first visited inland Australia they met an Aboriginal man who had already learned English from his visit to Singapore.
0wgZ5 TIL only one woman has been awarded the Medal Of Honor. It was subsequently taken away from her & then 60 years later, it was posthumously given back. Mary was a women’s right activist & was once arrested for “impersonating” a man by wearing pants.
Dklg TIL whalers had an agreement called “The Law of the Tongue” with a pod of killer whales, where the killer whales herded Baleen whales in exchange for tongues and lips. The leader of the pod was believed to be 80 years old when he died.