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TIL of 'Death Discs' - or 'Splatter Platters'- a type of Pop music to emerge in the late '50s-mid '60s. Sung by teen artists, themes centred on tragic deaths and suicide. The sub-genre was seen as the first musical expression of teen - especially teen female - angst.

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R571 TIL that Lucifer, as referred to in the book of Issiah, was actually a Babylonian king.
7ljM TIL 7-Eleven is Japan’s #1 grocery store
rNlPo TIL of the "Hippy Trail" when thousands of western hippies traveled the Silk Road by bus, car, van, motorcycle, or hitch hiking, mingling with locals in Afghanistan (and the entire Silk Road) in the 1960s-70s, officially ending in 1979 when the Afghanistan war started
MedGm TIL of Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who assassinated President William McKinley on Sep. 6, 1901. He was executed seven weeks later by Edwin Davis, the first “state electrician” of New York.
grXL TIL that on 9/11, the BBC reported the collapse of 7 World Trade Center 20 minutes before it happened (it can be seen behind the reporter whilst she talks about its collapse)