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Today I learned that Carly Simon sang the chorus to ‘Kissing with Confidence’ from 1983 by Will Powers.

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bOG4 TIL that between 1911-12, George Murray Levick observed a breeding cycle of Adelie Penguins on Cape Adare. He found them to be very depraved, practicing homosexuality, necrophilia, and abuse. He suppressed the study, which was only published last year, because he found it “too shocking”.
ogRo TIL The Russian Civil War was so intense, their alphabet lost 4 letters by the end.
neQ7W TIL Agatha Christie once disappeared for 11 Days and no one (including her) apparently knows what happened.
mjGO TIL that when Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773 it made the price of the tea (even with the tax included) cheaper than the competing smuggled Dutch tea. Americans refused to buy the cheaper tea because to do so would recognize Parliament’s right to tax the colonies.
69Y7J TIL Ugandan pygmies were evicted from Bwindi impenetrable rain forests so that mountain gorillas could stay there peacefully. People ate fruits and root food in the forests but now they are being enjoyed by mountain gorillas as the Batwa starve