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XEP9R TIL That Tracy Chapman, multi-platinum and four time Grammy Award winning artist, says she credits the inspiration to learn guitar as a child came from an American telivision variety show called "Hee Haw" that featured country music and themed backdrop. (corrected)
E1JVx TIL In 1996, a group of scientists claimed to have found evidence of microscopic fossils formed by Martian primitive life billions of years ago on a meteorite discovered in Antarctica.
x6ng TIL Casper the Friendly Ghost died as a teen because of pneumonia from sledding all day.
pYd14 TIL the Holidays with Pay Act 1938 took trade unionists, politicians and ordinary Britons 20 years of advocacy before the legislation was passed