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TIL that 20% (around 4 million songs) of Spotify’s catalog have never been played before.

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Gmx5 TIL there is a pill that gets you drunker with less booze and reduces hangover symptoms.
4QyX TIL that, when the 1889 Presidential Inauguration occured on a rainy day, the defeated incumbent president, Grover Cleveland, held the new president, Benjamin Harrison’s, umbrella for him while he took the oath of office.
OGyvX TIL that in South Africa, the Evolutionary theory was only introduced into the high school curriculum in 2008. Before that, the government had ignored it because it went against their beliefs (in creationism.)
mxylE TIL The Beatles song Blackbird (solo Paul McCartney) has a tapping that keeps time. The tapping was thought to be a metronome but was in fact Paul's foot keeping time as he played guitar and sang the lyrics.
MeDkb TIL about Juneteenth: an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans throughout the former Confederate States of America.