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TIL Elvis Costello's dad recorded an album covering Elvis Presley's hits.

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R7Pow TIL Botanist Robert Brown was not the first who discovered Brownian motion (It was Jan Ingenhousz) and Einstien was not the first who described it. But Einstien used Brownian motion to calculate the size of an atom.
0wlv1 TIL the founder of the USA’s earliest lesbian bar was deported for obscenity and was eventually murdered at Auschwitz.
X5XP TIL the Inuit conquered the Arctic from a now-extinct people called the Dorset. The Dorset were allegedly larger and stronger than the Inuit but not warlike and easily scared off.
XEKEE TIL about the disparity between male and female Blanket Octopus. A female can grow up to 2 metres in height, whereas a male can only grow around 2.4 centimetres.
O8AY TIL Doctor Seuss’s first book took 27 publisher rejections before it finally found a taker, Chicken Soup for the Soul was passed on by over 100, A Time to Kill by 26, and George Orwell was told Animal Farm would never sell because “it is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.”