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TIL that nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America are bots

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OYOe TIL the “I should buy a boat” cat is from a Bjork music video.
xVp85 TIL Hermilio Valdizán who was considered the founder of psychiatry in Perú die because of his goodness. On December 25th, 1929, he send home all the medical staff so they could enjoy Christmas. Sadly he has an angina problem and due to lack of doctors, he dies that night.
BALd TIL a six-second-long drum break from the late sixties has become the most used sample of music to date, as it helped form the basis for both hip hop and drum and bass music.
Q1wk TIL the concept of the “rap battle” has existed since the 5th century, where poets would engage in “flyting,” a spoken word event where poets would insult one another in verse
OGJQ7 TIL that Morzillo, the horse Hernán Cortes rode in the conquest of Tenochtitlan, was worshipped as a thunder deity by a nearby tribe for over a century