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TIL the group that recorded “It’s Raining Men” changed their name to The Weather Girls after recording the song

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dPnQ TIL a dutch man named Jan de Doot, in 1651, removed his own bladder stone with a kitchen knife. He pulled it out through an incision he made in his perineum. It was the size of an egg and weighed a quarter of a pound. He lived for years after, and had the stone plated in gold.
9YDvB TIL the game developer HAL Laboratory got its name because "each letter put them one step ahead of IBM"
lol1V TIL that every single engineer in the Titanic died because they were working and fighting to keep the lights on so everyone else could get out.
e7yL TIL that in 2004, Georgia fired its entire traffic police force of 18,000 - and now has lower corruption rates than the US
pM8Q TIL Titanic’s maiden voyage was delayed due to a collision between the Olympic and the Royal Navy Ship the Hawke, causing White Star Line to salvage parts from the unfinished Titanic to fix the Olympic. The captain of the Olympic at the time was eventually the first and last Captain of the titanic.