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TIL: Jordy Lemoine holds the Guinness record for the youngest person to have #1 single, with the song "Dur dur d'être bébé!" He was 4 years old.

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Kn7G TIL Bob Marley’s song, Buffalo Soldier, refers to the name given to black troops by Native Americans, who thought black soldiers’ hair looked and felt like a buffalo’s pelt. Buffalo Soldiers settled railroad disputes, built and repaired forts, and protected settlers from Native American attacks.
9wNMr TIL President Harding literally saved the U. S. Constitution which was deteriorating improperly stored at the State Dept. He had it preserved in a glass case.
jNLBa TIL the reason a clock is used as a metaphor for how close we are to extinction in the Doomsday Clock is that a clock implies a countdown and suggests that destruction will naturally occur unless someone takes action to stop it.
nWop9 TIL that historically ketchup was made of mushrooms
j7RQ TIL that in 2013 a Chinese woman went on trial for murder after she squeezed a shopkeepers testicles so hard that he died.