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TIL the musicians of the Titanic were legally considered independent contractors rather than crew, so their families received no survivor benefits.

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JA7B TIL of the first ever man cured of HIV. Timothy Brown was living with HIV when he was diagnosed with Leukaemia. He received a blood stem cell transplant using a donor with a rare HIV resistant gene. Today he is HIV negative.
j6RZv TIL (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay was recorded by Otis Redding just 72 hours before he died in a plane crash.
O9W1 TIL: In 1976, Eric Clapton made a speech at a concert encouraging the British audience to vote for Enoch Powell, saying that Britain needed to “get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out”, and repeatedly shouting “Keep Britain White”. In response, Rock Against Racism was formed.
a8WKJ TIL selling child abuse material wasn't ruled to be outside of first amendment protections until 1982.
BrdkL TIL that Jimi Hendrix’s national anthem performance at Woodstock was meant to be a protest to the Vietnam war. In the song he makes sounds that are supposed to symbolize bombs dropping and screams of people.