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TIL Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was the first commercially released song to be digitally recorded... in 1976!

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xVw9w TIL about Frances Cleveland. When her husband, Grover Cleveland became president in 1893, she was 21. This makes her the youngest First Lady in US history.
NXV81 TIL that mice can go into depression and empathize with other mice.
KYJAB TIL Rosebud wasn't revealed to be Charles Kane’s sled until the 40s
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