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TIL That Rolling Stone magazine named Aretha Franklin as the greatest singer of all time

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aYVJ TIL The relationship between single-parent families and crime is so strong that controlling for it erases the difference between race and crime and between low income and crime.
PYmNe TIL In the song "Come and get your love" by Redbone, they're not singing "Hey!" in the chorus, but actually "Hail!".
d8AAK TIL that in 1969, the University of Washington broke up a student protest by having some farmers "accidentally" release angry bees.
wL9QY TIL the term weed is defined as "a plant considered undesirable in a particular place or situation" and has no taxonomic significance
AN1Pw TIL Princess Märtha Louise of Norway (daughter of the current King) claims to be a clairvoyant, and is married to a "Neoshaman" accused of extensive scams; he even claimed her previous deceased husband contacted him from beyond the grave