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TIL: American rapper and singer Lizzo, born Melissa Viviane Jefferson, was classically trained as a flutist for 8 years, from the age of 10 until she graduated from high school in 2006. At age 14, she formed a musical group called Cornrow Clique with her friends.

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neawP TIL that Sheila Vogel-Coupe, age 85 as of 2014, was believed to be Britain’s oldest working prostitute. She became a sex worker at the age of 81. She serviced an average of 10 clients a week and charged upwards of $420 an hour.
9wl7X TIL William Huggins’s first spectroscopic observations, published in 1863, showed that stars are composed of the same elements that occur on the Sun and Earth
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