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TIL that a woman got her 20 boyfriends to buy her 20 iPhones, then sold them to buy a house

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gMj44 TIL "Strange Fruit" is a song recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. It protests the lynching of Black Americans, with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. The song has been called "a declaration of war" and "the beginning of the civil rights movement".
WkMmd TIL ... All non herbal teas (white, green, black, oolong, pu-erh, etc.) come from the same plant Camellia sinesis. Though different varietals in the plant have developed among different regions, teas from the same region only differ by oxidation and not the leaf itself.
ADZm7 TIL Elvis Presley met with Richard Nixon. He wanted to get a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs because with it “he [believed he] could legally enter any country... carrying any drugs he wished.” After denouncing America's drug culture to the President, the King got his wish.
vZjx TIL that 74 soldiers marched across a bridge at the same rate of the bridges natural frequency (mechanical resonance). This eventually caused the bridge to collapse and ever since the incident, soldiers have been ordered to “break step” when crossing bridges.
5YPyk TIL The iconic whip featured in modern Zorro films (1998, 2005) originated from The Gay Blade (1981) in which Zorro is replaced by his flamboyantly gay brother who goes by the name Bunny Wigglesworth who swapped out the previously iconic sword for a whip.