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TIL Singapore used to control its population by offering preferential access to education to the children of parents who were voluntarily sterilized.

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kOZyB TIL Sam Cooke objected to playing the song "A Change is Gonna Come" in public, due to the track being so complex and because he felt the song sounded "like death", according to Bobby Womack. The song born from an arrest out of a whites-only hotel in Louisiana became a civil-rights icon, though.
xnx5 TIL that in 1996 small town Spanish Fork, Utah accidentally booked a Rage Against the Machine concert and citizens promptly lost their shit. “I’m concerned there might be a riot or something. It kind of scares me, that’s why I’m getting out of here,”
R7pg4 TIL a Saudi man, who was then the heaviest person alive and the second heaviest person ever recorded at 1340lbs (610kg) in 2013, was ordered by his King to lose weight. He then lost 1195lbs, and in 2017, weighed just 150lbs(68kg).
N7j98 TIL that scientists are and have been working on ways to record dreams. They have even recorded shapes through and other images through fMRI machines. One day soon, maybe we can record our dreams.
epjKn TIL that prior to the 20th century, scholars in Korea, China, and Vietnam could all easily communicate with each other in writing because everyone used Literary Chinese. However, they wouldn't have been able to talk to each other in person because each country pronounced the characters differently.