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TIL the song 'Rapture' by Blondie (1981) was the first single featuring a rap to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie, has said many rappers, including the Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep, told her it was the first rap song they ever heard.

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yVG1e TIL in the sitcom "The King of Queens", Carrie Heffernan had a sister named Sara that was in five of the first six episodes in Season 1 and then disappeared. She was mentioned in Season 3, but later plot lines and dialogue suggested that the sister never existed, and that Carrie is an only child.
4XLww TIL that Republicans are called the right, and Democrats are called the left, because of seating arrangements of various legislative parties in France in the late 1700’s. Supporters of the king sat on the right of the Speaker, and supporters of the revolution on the left.
eePn TIL the kid who plays Luke on Modern Family graduated high school at 13 and is a member of Mensa
R7y7a TIL during the 18th century Native American women would purchase black slave men, free them, and marry them into the tribe. After l enslavement of natives by Europeans ended, some black men choose to stay with native women since their children were born free, since the mother was free.
lopx7 TIL that Perth is the most remote major city in the world. Perth is so isolated that it is quicker, easier, and cheaper to fly to Bali then to fly to the east coast. The nearest city of at least 100,000 people is Adelaide, around 1300 miles away.