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TIL Michael Jackson broke a race barrier for Prince and other artists. Epic promoted Jackson’s singles to R&B and pop radio. Jackson worked with Paul McCartney and Eddie Van Halen. Billie Jean was the 1st video by a black artist in heavy rotation on MTV. The music industry was never the same.

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vVWr TIL: To camouflage aircraft factories in suburban Los Angeles during WWII, the military built simulated neighborhoods on their rooftops complete with fake cars, roads, homes and foliage. Actors were hired to inhabit these spaces too.
woEO6 TIL Brazil, despite being a country with no colonial territories, actually had its own overseas territory shortly after becoming independent. A naval base located in what was the Portuguese Congo/Cabinda Province, with the aim of suppressing the Atlantic slave trade.
lJRB TIL while Australian billionaire Kerry Packer was playing poker in a Vegas casino, a Texas oil investor kept bragging about how rich he was, when he said he was worth $60 Million, Kerry Packer took a coin out of his pocket and said “I’ll flip you for it”.
XEWBE TIL of the N.S Savannah. A nuclear powered passenger/cargo ship built in 1961, that was intended to showcase to the world an example of the peaceful uses of nuclear power.
QAP9 TIL that the earth does not actually orbit around the sun, but rather around the solar system’s center of mass, which is constantly moving, and is currently several hundred thousand kilometers away from the sun.