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TIL: Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is a convicted Paedophile after he pleaded guilty to the felony “use of a child in a sexual performance”. The incident involved a 13-year-old girl performing sex acts, and he later distributed videos of the incident online as part of a music video.

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ZpXPa TIL Robert Clary, the actor who played stalag prisoner Corporal LaBeau on the TV Show Hogan’s Heroes, was an Auschwitz survivor
gMVBD TIL During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, to help USA/USSR relations, astronauts and cosmonauts played smuggled audio recordings of glasses clinking, laughter, and many female voices. Houston radioed to ask what’s going on. "Oh nothing,” they said. “We finished work, just having a party up here."
bwEp TIL Yellow Journalism is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines.
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d8oN7 TIL that “discotheque” means "library of phonograph records" in French; the term gradually came to refer to clubs where records were the norm, rather than a band. In the early 1960s, the word came into use in the United States, frequently shortened to “disco.”