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TIL the first music video shown on MTV was "video killed the radio star"

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Lkny0 TIL In 1911 The Rigby family included their cat Tom in their census form. 'Tom Cat' was listed as being an 8-year old, married Mouse-Catcher, Soloist and Thief with 16 children. His birthplace was listed as Cheshire and he was described as being 'speechless' in the infirmity section of the form.
d8M48 TIL that Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra was a founding member of the supposed Mexican cartel death core band Brujeria.
xVmX5 TIL that Mao Zedong was responsible for more deaths than Hitler or Stalin.Political scientist Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014), a non-China specialist who made wildly higher estimates than any other historian—that Mao was responsible for 77 million deaths.
j6k1j TIL that apartheid South Africa designated East Asians as “honorary whites”, granting them the same rights and privileges as white South Africans
1a6ZP How well do you know your neighbors? If you live in an urban area of North America, you might have a furry neighbor that you haven't yet seen. Raccoons have adapted so well to city life, they are now more common in cities than in the country.