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TIL Eddie Murphy bet Richard Pryor $100,000 that he had singing talent. "Party All The Time" went on to #2 on the Billboard chart

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loVm7 TIL that Christopher Meloni will reprise his role for a new SVU-spinoff series, where Stabler comes out of retirement to lead an NYPD Organized Crime task force. I I would enjoy that as L&O:SVU is one of my favorite shows. This new one is L&O: Organized Crime.
ke71 TIL Chris Kyle, known as the most lethal sniper in United States history, lost his life at 38 when he tried to help Eddie Ray Routh, a veteran suffering with PTSD, by taking him to a gun range. Instead, Routh turned his gun on Kyle and killed him.
9YwpM TIL in 1901 Spain, a woman adopted a male identity and married another woman. The couple was later discovered and had to escape to Argentina. Their marriage certificate was never annulled, so this is the first recorded same-sex marriage in Spain, 100 years before it was legal.
KOVE9 TIL in the event of victory in WWII the Nazis planned to host every Olympic Games that followed in a stadium that would seat 405’000 people
neQaY TIL that starting about 7,000 years ago in Egypt, seasonal rains started moving south until rain only now falls regularly on the Ethiopian highlands. This shift forced nomadic cattle herders to settle along the Nile, leading to the first permanent Egyptian civilizations.