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TIL "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (or "Black National Anthem") was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday by John Rosamond Johnson.

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l95r TIL LGBT activists in Australia created a kingdom in nearby islands called the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands. The national flag is the LGBT color flag, and the official currency is the Euro.
x6EK5 TIL Paul Rusesabagina, the protagonist of the film Hotel Rwanda (played by Don Cheadle) that protected 1200 people during the Rwandan Genocide, was arrested in 2020 on terrorism charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Following international condemnation, he was released in 2023.
9YK4p TIL Pedro Lopez, one of the world's most prolific serial killers who has confessed to over 300 murders, only spent 14 years in jail, absconded on a $50 bail, and remains at large
7Llb TIL If you earn more than US$21,000 a year, you are part of the richest 4% of the planet.
Lnmv TIL that a mother wanted her daughter to make the cheerleading squad so bad, she hired a hitman to kill the mother of a girl already on the team with the belief that she would be so devastated by her mother’s death that she would drop out off the squad, thereby giving the spot to her daughter.