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TIL a professor at Baylor University started the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project by collecting thousands of songs and photos from the 1940s to the 1980s, and these lost pieces of history are available online, free of charge.

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ppj8 TIL that alligators have been a long-running problem for NASA, including climbing over their fences and entering buildings over night
AZ0o TIL Przewalski’s horse is the only true wild horse left in the world, and that the other horses, such as the American Mustang, are actually feral horses.
KO88G Today i learned one of the largest organisms on earth is a group of trees in Pando, Utah. It covers 107 acres and has 47,000 distinct trees that share the same root system.
lWO1 TIL that Mark Twain blew the bulk of his book profits and his wife’s inheritance investing in the failed Paige typesetting machine, the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $8million USD, which lead him to file bankruptcy in 1894.
v7K4 TIL a man was found alive in an air pocket on a sunk ship after three days of no water, no food, and in pitch black.