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TIL The music industry is on deaths door in terms of sale

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Ooyb1 TIL of Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, who was the only woman to have served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during WWII. She carried hundreds of men to safety. In 1944, she helped assault a Ukrainian city, singlehandedly attacking a German position and taking 14 prisoners.
1xxV TIL that Alice Wadsworth, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, argued in 1917 against granting women the right to vote in part because “It would be an official endorsement of nagging as national policy.”
XEpxR TIL Brazil Nuts grow on trees with deep roots, which reach down to soil high in natural radium. This makes Brazil Nuts more radioactive than most other items in your home.
PYPxJ TIL that former Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg once went incognito as a taxi-driver in Oslo because he wanted to "hear from real Norwegian voters and that taxis were one of the few places where people shared their true views."
5YGXp TIL of Gergely Barki. In 2009 while watching Stuart Little with his daughter, he noticed a painting that had not been seen in public since 1928. After finding the painting and putting it in the right hands. It was auctioned off for $285,000