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TIL that Norah Jones is the daughter of Ravi Shankar. The Indian sitar player that taught George Harrison.

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BJrx TIL of a straight Christian man who spent a year of his life as a gay man, including coming out to his family, getting a job as a barista at a gay café and enlisting a friend to act as his boyfriend. The experience radically changed his view of religion and he now views homosexuality as acceptable.
0MgN TIL: The Word ‘Nothing’ in the title of Shakespeare’s 'Much Ado About Nothing’ was Elizabethan Slang for 'Pussy.’
jNDGE TIL although Wayne’s World (1992) was released after Freddie Mercury died, he got to see the car headbanging scene featuring Bohemian Rhapsody shortly before he passed away on November 24, 1991. He loved it and foresaw how the use of the song would ignite a comeback for Queen in the United States.
P1OeG TIL that the swedish word for conducting invesigative journalism is named after the german invesigative journalist Günter Wallraff
gMNdy TIL There is a all women vigilanty group in India called the Gulabi Gang that hunt down men who commit crimes against women.