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TIL "Jack & Diane" was supposed to have been about an interracial couple, but Mellencamp was pressured by the label to change itb

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e0xWb TIL about Pavlik Morozov: a Ukrainian boy who was indoctrinated by the Young Pioneers, turned his parents in to the police for hiding grain, and actively participated in their assassination. He was then killed by his grandfather for betraying his family. Pavlik was celebrated as a martyr by Soviets.
aO5J TIL KitKats are considered to be good luck in Japan because the Japanese reading of “KitKat”, “kitto katto”, sounds similar to “kitto katsu”, a phrase which translates to “surely win”
JYNaj TIL: There is a Japanese version of John Denver's "Country Road"
9Y9mX TIL in 1928, the founder of Juilliard overheard an audition of someone improvising on a Rachmaninoff classic. Appalled, he went to confront the blasphemer, but found an 8yo Black girl (Hazel Scott), whose hands were too small to hit all the right keys. She was deemed a prodigy & accepted immediately
8bxP TIL the official city motto of Paris is “Fluctuat nec mergitur”, or “She is tossed by the waves but does not sink”