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TIL that Macklemore worked at a juvenile detention center to help the detainees express themselves by writing and creating rap lyrics

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DQvBe TIL that chainsaws were originally invented to aid childbirth.
YpDdZ TIL a British mathematician William Shanks famously took 15 years to calculate π to 707 digits, but made a mistake in the 528th digit, rendering all subsequent digits incorrect.
PYvWE TIL of Canicross, a sport where a person runs a race with a dog to help pull them forward, allowing the runner to maintain faster speeds than what would be possible otherwise.
xVwAw TIL that Cher is the only artist in history to have a Number One song on the Billboard Music Charts for six consecutive decades.