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TIL in Iraq in 2012 over 14 teens were stoned to death for being emo

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bPeQ TIL Carlos Santana revealed to Rolling Stone that he was contacted by the Archangel Metatron and told how to create his next album ‘Supernatural.’ It went on to win 12 Grammy’s including Album of the Year, went 15 times platinum, charted #1 in ten countries, and sold 30 million copies.
656w TIL that compared to white males, as of 2011 African-Americans males had 9-times more chlamydia, 19-times more gonorrhea, and 6-times more syphilis according to the CDC.
x6ydb TIL Sri Lankan playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera performed her debut play "Middle of Silence" at the age of 19 and her debut play was staged in London's West End. She also wrote screenplay for 2008 Italian-Sri Lankan film Machan which was based on the disappearance of Sri Lanka national handball team
yQ8DX TIL that "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" was never meant to be a Christmas carol. The music was originally written for the 400th anniversary of the printing press.
Kx76 TIL it is estimated that 1,000 deaths occurred in the months following 9/11 because Americans chose to travel by car instead of by plane