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TIL that Katy Perry started out as a Contemporary Christian singer with her first album, under her real name Katy Hudson

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vJe7 TIL the Millennium Tower in San Francisco, a 58-story luxury high-rise whose ‘cheaper apartments’ sell for $2 million, is sinking and tilting to one side - raising fears it may eventually topple over - because “to cut costs, Millennium did not drill piles to bedrock”.
v115D TIL that within about 600 million years, faster weathering of rocks by an increasingly brighter sun will reduce atmospheric CO2 levels below the threshold required for trees to survive, and all of earth's forests will die.
vnwj TIL the first Australian ship to go to Japan was a boat full of convicts who mutinied against their masters in in 1829. After escaping to China the sailing master wrote an account of their journey, but until 2017 when an amateur historian found Japanese paintings of the ship no one believed him.
D1bnj TIL While with Tubeway Army, Gary Numan’s breakout hit Are "Friends" Electric? was a No 1 single in the UK, but was all about a robot prostitute
awLwN TIL about Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first European to be born in North America. He was born near modern-day New England around the year 1000.