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TIL Barcelona's Concert for Plants was taken for a "Cover"
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TIL Washington Football Team's Dan Snyder Destroyed a Park Ranger's Career to Have a Clear View From His $10 Million Mansion
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TIL that Aretha Franklin holds the record for winning the most consecutive Grammys in the same category. She won the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance every year from 1968 to 1975, for an eight-year winning streak. She also won in 1982, 1986, and 1988, giving her 11 wins in the category.
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TIL Captain America was first published a year prior to Pearl Harbor, when there was still strong isolationist opposition to America becoming involved in World War II
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TIL Hu Yaobang, whose funeral triggered the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, wanted to have Tibetans and Uyghurs govern themselves, supported improved Sino-Japanese relations, investigated party nepotism/corruption, and was forced to resign as General Secretary for not silencing student protests
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TIL that the green iguana has a ‘third-eye’ called a parietial eye, in the middle of its forehead. This does not function in the same way as its two side eyes, but enables it to detect movement, especially from above, to help it avoid predators.