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TIL that the nation of Barbados has a Rihanna Day on February the 22th to celebrate their most famous celebrity.

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ogVR TIL A Dutch Police Force Is Training Eagles To Combat Drones
O8AY TIL Doctor Seuss’s first book took 27 publisher rejections before it finally found a taker, Chicken Soup for the Soul was passed on by over 100, A Time to Kill by 26, and George Orwell was told Animal Farm would never sell because “it is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.”
v1988 TIL despite playing ~2,350 live concerts over 30 years, there exists some form of a live recording of every Grateful Dead show except one: March 17, 1970. A reward is offered to anyone who can procure the lost tape.
ymMl TIL that after Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism upon marrying Arthur Miller, Egypt placed a ban on all the films she appeared in.
wl46 TIL in 1996, a black teenager, while marching to protest a KKK rally in Michigan, protected a white man, who had an “SS” tattoo and and a confederate flag shirt, from the attacks of a crowd. She threw herself on him to deflect the mob’s strikes, due to her belief that “nobody deserves to be hurt.”