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TIL about Grammy winning musician Janis Ian. At 16, while on tour & after performing late at night on a tv show, she fell asleep on her chaperone's (a female family friend) lap. Bill Cosby saw this, pronounced her a "lesbian", and actively attempted to blacklist her from all television.

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Vekp TIL the Guns N’ Roses hit song Sweet Child o’ Mine came under controversy in 2015 when a very similar sounding track by a lesser known Australian rock band was discovered to have been released six years prior. Upon hearing the song, GnR’s bassist, Duff McKagan, called the similarities “stunning.”
Z8nQY TIL: of the 7 Metals of Antiquity: gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron & mercury. All identified and used since pre-historic times
Lk7XP TIL Jiddu Krishnamurti was revered as a prophet from childhood, but during a ceremony meant to establish his messianic status to the world he shocked his followers by renouncing his "coming", dissolving their organization, repudiating organized religion, and denouncing the concept of saviors.
4kV9o TIL about Ragamuffin Day, a celebration in the New York metro area in the late-1800s and early-1900s in which children wore costumes and went door-to-door asking for candy or money on Thanksgiving. It fell out of favor as trick-or-treating on Halloween gained acceptance in the 1940s and '50s.
R71JQ TIL that in Brazil in 2018, the most popular baby names were all double-barrelled: Enzo Gabriel, João Miguel, and Pedro Henrique for boys; Maria Eduarda, Maria Clara, and Maria Cecilia for girls