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TIL Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and ‘sounded like a goat’

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b6l6E TIL Cassini was able to measure the change in diameter of the Sun's disk as Earth moved toward and then away from the Sun through a hole in a church, confirming Kepler's heliocentric theory. The same church hosts a fresco depicting Prophet Mohamed in hell being tortured and devoured by a demon
X0vpP TIL that the Dutch Caribbean, speaks a Portuguese-based creole (Papiamentu) and English as the majority spoken languages. Although Dutch is widely taught and known among locals.
VBV64 TIL Sydney Greenstreet was not a movie actor until he was 61 years old, his first acting experience was in the movie The Maltese Falcon (1941) as Kasper Gutman. he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in this movie.
rNWwM TIL about the Hart Island Project, which is aimed at listing and identifying bodies buried in mass graves at New York City’s mass burial cemetery on Hart Island. Each body has a clock that counts the minutes, hours, days, and years until each body is identified and their story is told.
1ad9V TIL Martin Van Buren is presently the only US President who spoke English as a second language.