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TIL Kate Bush's first tour was in 1979 to promote her first two albums, then she didn't tour again until 2014.

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0dyJL TIL that because of his lower body paralysis, Franklin D. Roosevelt developed such an impressive upper body physique that it impressed boxer Jack Dempsey. FDR once caught a 237 lb (108 kg) shark after fighting it on his line for two hours.
OG0PR TIL at the end of hostilities during WW1, a German U-boat surrendered and was supposed to be towed to France, but the tow cable snapped and the submarine washed up on a beach in Hastings, UK. Thousands of tourists visited to see her until she was broken up in 1921.
DQDQp TIL Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, the Britannic, and the Olympic
p8o5A Today I learned that Mel Gibson's father was a reactionary Catholic and antisemitic conspiracy theorist who was also the grand champion of Jeopardy! in 1968
R55GQ TIL The Babcock father and son team constructed the first solar magnetograph, which allowed them to measure the general magnetic field of the sun. The son, Horace Babcock, was able to discover magnetic fields in more distant stars with his own invention