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TIL about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed 4 media conglomerates to buy out all successful indie hip-hop labels, eventually making hip-hop less about art & social change & more about crime, gang life, & sex as those sold more records, according to Prof Tricia Rose of Brown Uni.

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PQjV TIL that Salvador Dalí condemned clichés, stating: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” Ironically, in stating this he himself was repeating the words of poet Gérard de Nerval.
j6JGv TIL there's a monument in Kissimmee, Florida composed of 1,500 objects from all over the world, including the artist's remains
LkKJm TIL the United States Senate used the same gavel from 1789-1954, until then Vice President, Richard Nixon, broke it during a particularly heated debate on nuclear energy.
L84m TIL that JFK awarded Canadian immigrant Frances Oldham Kelsey America’s highest federal civilian service award for preventing a major tragedy of birth deformities from thalidomide
OyQL TIL In eight years, Utah has quietly reduced homelessness by 78 percent, and is on track to end homelessness by 2015