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TIL Sister Rosetta Tharpe. "The original soul sister" &"The Godmother of rock and roll" She was among the first gospel musicians to appeal to rhythm and blues and rock and roll audiences, and use heavy distortion on her electric guitar, opening the way to the rise of electric blues.

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KW9w TIL in 1958, then Vice President Nixon unknowingly smuggled 3 lbs. of marijuana through U.S. Customs for Louis Armstrong.
5YLxB TIL of a comet that survived passing through the Sun
0ww6y TIL California (population 39 million) has a larger economy than France (66mil), India (1.3bil), Italy, Brazil, Canada, South Korea, Russia, and Australia.
rNkJW TIL that there was a cat named Oscar who lived in a hospital, and he seemed to predict the death of patients by choosing to nap next to them a few hours before they died. Hypotheses for this include that Oscar was picking up on the lack of movement in such patients or that he could smell something.
9JNm TIL ‘Chum’ is actually fish bait, which are usually fish guts, parts, fluid, bones and blood. Which is why in SpongeBob, nobody eats 'Chum’, because they are non-cannibalistic fish. However, Patrick can eat chum because he’s a starfish. Starfish 'feed on dead fish’.