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TIL that not only was Jingle Bells not originally a Christmas song, it was originally written for and sung in a minstrel show by performers in blackface

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lmeK TIL Thomas Hicks ran the 1904 Olympic marathon while drinking a mix of strychnine, egg whites and brandy which made him hallucinate and become sick. His trainers had to carry him over the finish line but he was still declared the winner, with the slowest gold medal time in Olympic marathon history.
QN0Jk TIL: Music gives you dopamine, which is why your jam is your jam. Listen to improve mood!
1ogW TIL The Original Illuminati was an Enlightenment-era secret society in Bavaria created on May 1st 1776, The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.
VBkem TIL Quinta Brunson (creator of Abbot Elementary) was in the music video for Thundercat’s Dragonball Durag
Roo8 TIL Eminem composed ‘Lose Yourself’ entirely during breaks between shoots on the sets of 8 Mile.