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

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jNDgj TIL that there are mushrooms with thousands of sexes. "Schizophyllum commune has 23,328 distinct sexes, properly called mating types."
1QRV TIL Henry V’s only surviving portrait is in profile probably because he was shot in the face by an arrow fighting Welsh and English rebels in Shrewsbury which left bad scarring, this is probably also where he learnt the effectiveness of the Welsh Longbow which helped him win the Battle Of Agincourt.
DOKP TIL: Hitler was well aware of what his reputation would be after the war. Albert Speer recalls: “We were alone, silently watching twilight darken into night…Hitler says: ‘If I fail, I shall be the most despised man in history.’”
16kk7 TIL that Everlast is the stage name of a solo artist, not a band, and be used to be in House of Pain.
8aNw8 TIL about Bayard Rustin, an openly gay black man who advised Martin Luther King Jr. on the principles of nonviolence, was a major civil rights leader, and was the main organizer of the March On Washington. He has been largely forgotten (especially relative to other activists) due to his sexuality.