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TIL Tracy Chapman is the first Black Woman to have sole writing credit on a number one country song thanks to Luke Combs cover of her hit song "Fast Car"

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wmaP TIL according to recent research, 87.2% of employees want to leave their current jobs in 2014, and 52.6% said that it was because they did not trust their boss.
Y7LpP TIL that "the stank face" cats make, is not only shared with horses (amongst other animals), but also has a term. The "Flehmen Response" which in simple terms can be described as them trying to get a real big deep wiff of something funky because it's interesting. Not because it's stinks.
7087 TIL Larry King has been married eight times to seven women, including to a playboy bunny, a math teacher, and a devout Mormon. He had been married twice before his current wife was even born, and he and his current wife married in a hospital room days before he went into heart surgery.
mxNdx TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen never played chess in their life until the movie X-Men required them to do so. A chess master came in to teach them.
Brgbb TIL: the speed of light can be slowed down