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TIL about David Bowie’s 1983 interview with Mark Goodman where he calls out the lack of black artists featured on MTV

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XE4Jr TIL Penguin Australia was forced to destroy 7,000 of its cookbook Pasta Bible after a typo suggested that a dish required "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of "black pepper". The mistake cost the company $20k.
MejXB TIL that a MASSIVE solar storm just barely missed Earth in 2012. Power grids all over the world would have been catastrophically compromised & so would the lives of the entire population.
B5Ax TIL A 19 yr old pizza delivery guy helped save a man’s life by performing CPR on the customer who was turning blue outside the house. He said, “I left a pizza boy and came back a pizza man.” His tip was 25 bucks.
4XLBR TIL: The vampire squid is not a squid or an octopus. It is the only living member of Vampyromorpha, an ancient cephalopod order which was a precursor to squids and octopuses
6EDv8 TIL of Continuum, a magazine published by HIV/AIDS Deniers. Its last editors died in 2001 of HIV/AIDS.