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TIL Sam Cooke objected to playing the song "A Change is Gonna Come" in public, due to the track being so complex and because he felt the song sounded "like death", according to Bobby Womack. The song born from an arrest out of a whites-only hotel in Louisiana became a civil-rights icon, though.

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4keMw TIL the Parker Solar Probe has become the fastest man-made object traveling at 430,000 MPH, that's around the earth in about 3 minutes.
E1XY7 TIL Henry Hans Ernst Marwede, German pilot who fought against the Allies during WW1, was decorated with the Iron Cross, could not accept the rise of Nazism and went to France, avoided internment by joining the Foreign Legion, and sided with the Allies in WW2.
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