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TIL In 1988 Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton all lost Album of the year

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W7Lo4 TIL that the Goosebumps books were banned in some school libraries across the 90s for being too scary
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YNNx TIL the Event Horizon Telescope not only took the first photos of a black hole, it’s powerful enough to count the stitches on a baseball 8,000 miles away.
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JYgO8 TIL France had a "proto-internet" called Minitel, to which half the population had access. It allowed for buying plane tickets, shopping, 24-hr news, message boards & adult chat services. It was used to coordinate a national strike in 1986. Some believe it hindered the internet's adoption in France.