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TIL that in the 17th century, choir boys as young as eight years old would be castrated in order to preserve their pre-pubescent "angel voices"

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DQM9J TIL that in the 1960 Massachusetts Democratic primary, six different candidates named "John Kennedy" were on the ballot for various offices, not counting the future president.
Me9eK TIL about the One-electron Universe Theory, which states that the reason because all of the electrons have the same charge and mass is because they are just the same electron travelling through space and time
VMnKB TIL "Hit Me Baby One More Time" was written by a Swede who meant the chorus to mean "hit me up on the phone one more time" but mistranslated it
WklDY TIL, that the most published works by one author, was L. Ron Hubbard at 1084.
g9Db TIL although acne affects 79-95% of western adolescents, a study of non-westernized tribes in Papua New Guinea and Paraguay found no cases of acne.