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TIL - Dusty Springfield who sang "Son of a Preacher Man" and "I Only Want To Be With You" came out as bisexual and it destroyed her career

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PpGJ TIL In 1939 the New York Times predicted that the television would fail because the average American family would not have enough time to sit around watching it.
XEmGD TIL: That Charles Manson studied Scientology while incarcerated, Manson completed 150 hours of auditing before declaring Scientology "too crazy".
OGggL Today I Learned -- A palliative care nurse asked dying people about their regrets and the most common regret was : "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me"
45YJ TIL Wonder Woman was named a UN Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls in 2016. However, due to her being an overtly sexualized scantily clad “large breasted white woman of impossible proportions” critics dismissed the character as not being a worthy role model for women.
0wA5v TIL that Eminem was sued by his grade school bully for defamation in the song “Brain Damage.” However the judge ruled in Eminem’s favor with a 10 stanza footnote rap that ended with “It is therefore this court’s ultimate position, that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition.”