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TIL in 1999 when Christina Aguilera attended her boyfriend’s high school prom the DJ played her just-released single "Genie in a Bottle", but the students left the dance floor en masse out of jealousy.

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69j8 TIL that The Learning Channel (TLC) was founded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA; it was distributed at no cost by NASA satellite.
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