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TIL Brenda Lee was just 13 when she recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”

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NXMoP TIL there’s Wi-Fi on Mount Everest for the climbers.
QJaWd TIL some of the first cave art was of overly exaggerated nude woman so basically cave porn
yVdaM TIL about the tallest fountain in the world, located in Saudi Arabia, 'launched' in 1985
VMXX4 TIL that the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, was a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Lk01d Til the American Government tried to instill the values of home ownership in the American people with federal programs in 1917 to prevent the rise of communism as they believed people who owned their own homes had a stake in the capitalist system.