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TIL Canadian musician Bryan Adams has been an award-winning photographer for over 20 years. In addition to shooting celebrity portraits and holding over 50 gallery shows, he's photographed several musicians for their album covers, including Amy Winehouse's posthumous Lioness and Rammstein's Zeit.

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kO7V4 TIL in 2006 a teenage girl secretly pointed a webcam at her bed and left it running all night, hoping to prove to her mother that her father was molesting her. In spite of the video evidence, the jury voted to acquit because they thought the girl "didn't seem upset enough" during her testimony.
jNYwN TIL Mulan is very likely not ethnically Han. The story is set in the Northern Wei dynasty whose language was Tuoba, an extinct language that had mongolic and Turkic elements. She is believed to be of XianBei ethnicity, a nomadic people that once resided in the Eastern Eurasian Steppes.
9ynG TIL small wild primates existed in North America during the time of prehistoric man. The Sioux called them Ekgmowechashala, which meant, ‘little cat man,’ due to their appearance.
kMPm TIL Rupert Murdoch, acting CEO of Fox News, was “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company” after an investigation that his companies regularly hacked the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens.
xV80B TIL of Bobby Driscoll, famous Disney child actor in the 1940s and 50s (including the voice of Peter Pan), who died penniless and alone at age 31 in an abandoned NYC building. When his body went unclaimed, he was buried in an unmarked grave.