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TIL that teenage groupies of 12 to 16 years old known as The Baby Groupies hung around with, and slept with, rock stars in the early 70s

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OGon7 TIL Charles Mason, of the famous Mason-Dixon line, was an accomplished astronomer who recorded the transit of Venus in 1761 and developed a Lunar Table in attempt to solve the Longitude Problem.
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