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TIL Hans Zimmer is the tieless keyboardist in "Video Killed The Radio Star"

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ayJ0 TIL Massachusetts guaranteed access to all public schools to every child in 1845, after a group of black whalers from Nantucket, accustomed to the relative equality they had on whaling ships, began a boycott and petition campaign.
KOO0E TIL Aretha Franklin gave birth to her first child at the age of 12
jN0eX TIL it used to be common for woman in the US to wear extremely long metal hatpins but in 1910 hatpins longer than 9 inches were banned because woman were using them for self-defence and/or accidentally killing people with them.
jwVE TIL that composer Hans Zimmer has never had any formal music training.
EgYjx TIL actor John Lithgow’s childhood babysitter was Coretta Scott, the future future civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King.