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TIL that "Unbeknown to the members of Led Zeppelin, their music helped launch hip-hop’s first blockbuster crossover LP, following its release on Nov. 15, 1986."

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e91g TIL Pat Summit, former University of Tennessee Women’s Basketball Coach, had a student-athlete graduation rate of 100%. She coached for 38 years and is credited by many for helping put Women’s basketball on the map.
E7ap TIL: The most effective treatment for CDI (a bowel disease causing chronic diarrhea) is a fecal transplant, where poo from a healthy person is put in the infected person’s bum, thereby transplanting healthy bacteria into the digestive tract. It is 94% effective as opposed to 30% for antibiotics.
e0ErE TIL in 2017 Glastonbury Festival had to add pineapples to their list of contraband following the success of Glass Animals and their song Pork Soda, which contained the lyric "Pineapples are in my head" and caused fans to bring the fruit to live performances en masse
gMLPL TIL that globally, 80% of children in orphanages are not orphans. They’re trafficked as “paper orphans” to bogus orphanages as a way to attract donations.
GemN TIL that chinese prisoners were forced to farm gold in WoW which then would get sold for real money on the internet.