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TIL Ozzy Osbourne donated $10,000 to a music school for underprivileged children after watching their rendition of “Crazy Train”

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4rZo TIL the Voltaire quote co-opted by the far-right movement, “to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise” is actually a false quote attributed to Voltaire, and was likely first used by White Supremacist Kevin Strom in 1993, 215 years after Voltaire’s death.
woG8M TIL that the Romans were among the first to introduce a standardized system of measuring time through hours. But they didn't have a fixed hour duration throughout the entire year. Instead, they adjusted the length of an hour based on the length of daylight. A winter hr was shorter than a summer hr.
J5d8 TIL Kanye West hasn’t had a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 in 9 years
ADPj4 TIL “White Christmas”, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “Winter Wonderland”, “The Christmas Song” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” plus the melody for “O Holy Night” were all written or co-written by Jews.
l7pbB TIL Monasteries used to distill a compound called "uisge beatha" (pronounced uska beg) which means "water of life" in Gaelic. After it got popularized, people started calling it solely "uska", which led to its final form in present, whiskey.