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TIL that Prince performed a cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” at Coachella, but forced YouTube to remove footage that fans had taken of the performance. YouTube reinstated the videos after Radiohead demanded for them to remain on the site claiming “it’s our song, let people hear it.”

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PYvdZ TIL that John allen chau, christian missionary who famously was killed by the north sentinelese in India in 2018,tried to communicate with them in the xhosa Language(a south african language!), after which the natives often fell silent.
X0Qvj TIL that the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, James Brown gave a free citywide televised concert in Boston Garden in which he pleaded for the black community to remain calm and non-violent. The effort was largely successful, and Brown was credited with saving Boston
a8K0 TIL that the Roe effect is an hypothesis which suggests that since supporters of abortion rights cause the erosion of their own political base by having fewer children, the practice of abortion will eventually lead to the restriction or illegalization of abortion.
ne4vr TIL that the Schwarzschild Radius is the size an object is compressed in order to make it a black hole. Earth’s Schwarzschild Radius would be compressing it to 8.7 mm, which is about the size of a peanut.
VG9Z TIL that in March 2007, Switzerland accidentally invaded Liechtenstein with a 170-person infantry unit. Liechtenstein had abolished its military in 1868.