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TIL Sinead O'Connor was a major inspiration for REM's Losing my Religion video. Not only was Michael Stipe so moved by Sinéad's lip syncing in Nothing Compares to U video that he finally acquiesced to lip-synching in REM music videos, but he also states that he stole his dance moves from her.

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oBXoW TIL that there are native penguins in South Africa. The African penguin (also known as the jackass penguin cause of the species' loud, donkey-like bray) is the only wild penguin species that breeds in Africa.
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dEOd TIL the fastest man made object ever made was a manhole cover that was propelled to a speed of more than 41 miles per second due to an underground nuclear blast in 1957.
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