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TIL Beyoncé is the only female artist to debut all of her 8 studio albums at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200. She is also the most awarded and nominated artist of all time in the history of the Grammy Awards with 34 wins and 99 nominations. She is also the first woman to headline an all-stadium tour.

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9Yj9Q [TIL] that though Finland was allied with Germany during WW2, they refused to expel their native (and immigrant) Jewish population, with those serving in the army taking particular delight in speaking Hebrew around the SS and Wehrmacht in Finland.
K4ER TIL a larger number of bumper stickers on a car indicates a higher likelihood of being involved in a road rage incident.
OG8l7 TIL about Edwarda O'Bara, a Florida woman who went into a diabetic coma for 42 years after contracting pneumonia. Nicknamed "Florida's sleeping Snow White," her mother took care of her to the point that by 2007, 5 years before Edwarda passed, she was at least $200k in debt.
jPNp TIL brown eyes are actually blue under a layer of melanin
vPZZR TIL that prior to Louisa May Alcott's family residing at Orchard House in Concord, MA, it was the 17th-century home of John Hoare, who helped rescue and shelter Mary Rowlandson, a colonial woman captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War.