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TIL Neil Young said “Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around”

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MYlW TIL For over three years a poor, illiterate Peruvian farmworker Maxima Acuña de Chaupe withstood violent eviction attempts, beatings and a legal battle to allow Colorado’s Newmont Mining Corporation to turn her land into an open-pit gold mine.
e0XN4 TIL that a president of France actually died in office while being fellated.
jNKbR TIL Marilyn Bell, at age 16, became the first person to swim across Lake Ontario in 1954. Her 32 mile route was greatly lengthened by high wind and high waves. Fanged lamprey eels attacked her in 65 degree water. It took her 21 hours. She is still alive today.
kJp04 TIL: According to the American Survey Center, the 1996, “A National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy", by the department of health worked and teenage pregnancies have declined since then. However, Gen Z and millennial romance is drastically lower than Boomers and Gen X at the same age.
pYEQZ TIL Eve Ensler of “The Vagina Monologues” was on-set advisor for Mad Max: Fury Road.