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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

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6EorX TIL in 1896 two locomotives were deliberately crashed together as a promotional event for the railroad in Crush, Texas. Over 40K people attended. Engineers had assured the organizers that it would be safe, but when both boilers exploded on impact two spectators were killed and several more injured.
7kMX TIL The average 70-year-old Inuit with a traditional diet of whale and seal has arteries as elastic as those of a 20-year-old Danish resident.
GAe84 TIL about the "Singing Sand Dunes" phenomenon, where certain desert dunes emit a low-pitched hum due to sand grain vibrations under specific conditions
D1YQP TIL The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%. And in other words, ¨dinosaur pee¨
OQ1e TIL: Emil Krebs was a “polyglot” and mastered an incredible 68 languages