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TIL Gene Autry is the only celebrity to have 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - one for each category

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bgn4 TIL 25 years ago on this day a US guided missile cruiser attacked a civillian Iranian Airliner killing all 290 passengers including 66 children. US government never apologised for this incident.
dDQ8 TIL Ziggy Marley sang the theme song for the kids show “Arthur”
b9NMZ TIL G.H Hardy came up with a scale of mathematical ability that went from 0 to 100. He put himself at 25. David Hilbert, the great German mathematician, was at 80. Ramanujan was 100. When he died in 1920 at the age of 32, he left behind three notebooks that still inspire mathematical work today
e01dk TIL When Meat Loaf formed his first band in 1968 (named Meat Loaf Soul), he was immediately offered three recording contracts, all of which he turned down.
oB1eK TIL the Jamaican bobsled team received $30,000 in Dogecoin, funding their trip to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics