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TIL Mariah Carey wrote a country song with Willie Nelson called “Right To Dream”

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wDk1 TIL in 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by fifty companies; today, 90% is controlled by just six companies.
yVYml TIL about Ol Doinyo Lengai: A unique and active volcano in Tanzania that erupts relatively low temperature natrocarbonatite lava that is black when liquid and dries white.
QJmZp TIL The peacock mantis shrimp has the hardest punch in the animal kingdom, relative to its small size. In fact, if humans were as strong as these miraculous creatures, a person could throw a baseball into the orbit of the Earth.
GJL7 TIL that Clark Kent (Superman in DC Comics) is also a character in the Marvel universe, where he’s actually just a mild-mannered reporter and nothing more.
PYx4n TIL President Martin Van Buren (born Maarten van Buren) was raised in a Dutch community in Kinderhook, New York and grew up speaking Dutch, not learning English until he went to school. As a result, he is the only president in American history to speak English as a second language.