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TIL in 1975, Stevie Wonder, frustrated with the U.S. government, considered quitting music and emigrating to Ghana. He reconsidered and wrote and recorded Songs In The Key Of Life, an album widely considered a masterpiece.

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6gJw TIL that in 2008 the Pittsburgh SWAT won the “aerial shoot” of that year’s International Sniper Competition at Fort Benning, beating out more than 30 teams from across the world, including U.S. Special Forces, Marines and Army snipers.
78y8r TIL that the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois are at the largest pre-Colombian city in North America. At it's peak in 1100 CE, the city covered 6 square miles and housed upwards of 15,000 inhabitants. Indigenous people today, including the Cherokee and Choctaw, continue these mound-building traditions.
kJ9d4 TIL short-sightedness (myopia) is not entirely genetic, with environmental factors also contributing to the risk of developing it. The risk of myopia can be decreased by having young children spend more time outside
pX1G TIL microbiologist Raul Cano, successfully revived yeast that had been stuck in amber for 25 million years. He then co-founded a brewery that uses the same 45 million-year-old species of yeast to brew beer.
85W8 TIL that counterfit money printed by the british during the revolutionary war can be detected by its higher quality print than the legitimate bills