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TIL that Simon Cowell praised Rebecca Black’s song “Friday”: “the fact that it’s making people so angry is brilliant”. He advised her to not “listen to anyone over the age of 18. I’m being deadly serious. Whatever she’s done has worked … she’s the most talked-about artist in America right now”.

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rRLmx TIL that Captain Gilberto Araujo da Silva was one of only 11 survivors of an airliner crash in 1973. In 1979, while flying the same type of plane for the same airline, his flight disappeared and was never found.
p8odQ TIL of the Battle of Annual, where 3000 Moroccan rebels defeated over 23,000 Spanish Soldiers.
rNYle TIL That there was a plan to overthrow FDR by top business leaders when he first got elected because of his New Deal.
nWeWr TIL that in 1965, artist Andy Warhol made an 8-hour, B&W silent film called “Empire” that consisted of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building. It had no characters or narrative, and Warhol stated that the purpose of the film was “to see time go by.”
4RVX TIL Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the US, was the first president to have electricity in the White House but he never touched any light switches because he was too scared of getting electrocuted.