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TIL That an American charity will pay drug addicts $300 to get sterilized

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E1A9P TIL, Conway Twitty Sang 'Hello Darlin' in Russian. On July 19, 1975, the recording was played by the American astronauts on board the Apollo module to Russian cosmonauts flying in Soyuz 19. It was meant to be seen as a gesture of peace and goodwill toward the Russians.
nO0P TIL that mathematicians living in 16th Century Italy would have math duels to see who was the best. It would be so metal if math duels could still happen today.
rLOe TIL that the first public school in the United States is still open. The Boston Latin School was founded over 380 years ago; famous alumni include Sam Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Hancock, and Leonard Bernstein.
By4y TIL Molly Pitcher manned a cannon during the Revolutionary War when her husband fainted from heat stroke or injury. She didn’t back down, even when a cannonball shot the skirt from between her legs.
d8QpQ TIL a 1984 Einstürzende Neubauten performance was stopped after 21 minutes as the band was attempting to drill a hole in the stage so they could leave the venue through the floor