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TIL Garth Brooks’s 1993 song “We Shall Be Free” was boycotted by some country radio stations because it included the line “When we’re free to love anyone we choose”

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wonbo TIL starting in 2001, Dell Glover became the "world's leading leaker of pre-release music." He worked at a Universal CD pressing plant & was a member of a file-sharing group called Rabid Neurosis. Over an 11-year period, Rabid Neurosis was responsible for leaking over 20,000 albums.
b6eRa TIL the godmother of rock n roll was a black woman, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Active in the 1930s, she predated (and inspired) artists from Elvis to Beyoncé
m1dvo TIL when breastfeeding, the mammary glands will detect pathogens in the baby's saliva and create the needed antibodies for it in the milk.
jQNj TIL that nematodes (C. elegans) from an experiment aboard the US space shuttle Columbia were found alive in the wreckage of the shuttle disaster in 2003.
NX4BN TIL that the average lifespan of zebras in the wild is 25 years.