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TIL Chuck Berry is still alive, and only recently stopped touring.

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XEQB6 TIL the International Sweethearts of Rhythm was an all-female, multiracial band that toured in the Jim Crow South in the 1930s and ’40s, breaking both gender and racial barriers, with white bandmates wearing blackface to avoid charges of race-mixing.
VBb6G TIL that Japan National Route 339 has a 300 m staircase that’s officially part of the highway
9YmvG TIL about 14 cargo ships that were stranded in the Suez Canal for 8 years, whose crews all decided to form a micronation
nKyW TIL John Wayne, after some phone complaints, went down and told Frank Sinatra to end a party held in the suite directly below his own. A bodyguard confronted him, Wayne looked at him & turned as if to leave, then backhanded him and smashed a chair over his head. The noise stopped.
LkvbV TIL that though built in a classic Greco-Roman style in 1884, the entire exterior of the High Court in Bangalore, India, is painted flaming red.