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TIL Bob Newhart won the 1960 Grammy Awards for both Album of the Year and Best New Artist. Overall, not for comedy.

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Oogd4 TIL That graffiti from Pompeii survived the Vesuvius eruption. Some of the immortalized words recorded are; "Aufidius was here. Goodbye", "Samius to Cornelius: go hang yourself!" & "The one who buggers a fire burns his penis"
7reM TIL As part of an experiment, 12 people faked brief auditory hallucinations to gain admission to psychiatric hospitals. Once in they behaved normally, but 11 were misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. It was only other patients - not any doctors or nurses - who realized they were sane.
QNGxX TIL About 500,000 to 1,000,000 Mexicans and Mexican Americans were forcibly/"voluntarily" deported back to Mexico from the US from 1929 to 1939, after the US administration scapegoated Mexicans for the Great Depression. 40 to 60% of those were citizens of the United States, overwhelmingly children.
wB0E TIL that in 1909 two chemists invented an industrial process to harvest nitrogen from the air. Today, the nitrogen from that process keeps roughly 3.5 billion people alive.
vPder Today I learned about the song "Mexico", by Peruvian composer Francis Lopez.