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TIL the female singer on Great Gig in the Sky is a white woman, Clare Torry, who had to sue to get title credits and fair compensation for her work.

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vPvvK TIL that Friedrich Fröbel in 1840 first coined the term "kindergarten" because he believed that children should be nurtured and nourished "like plants in a garden".
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