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TIL Tanya Tucker was only 13 years old when she recorded Delta Dawn

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Wk5BX TIL by the end of 2019 the US unemployment rate was lower than in every year since 1970, and lower than throughout most of the 50s and 60s.
VMM84 TIL that Enya lives alone years now in a castle she bought next to Bono
BrEmL TIL that in 2001 Kenny Waters, a Massachusetts man who was wrongly imprisoned for 18 years for murder, was finally freed after his high-school drop-out sister went to law school to prove his innocence. However, 6 months after his release, he died in a freak accident.
GOO7 TIL in 1973 while performing a concert in San Francisco, Keith Moon, the drummer for ‘The Who’ passed out because of severe drug and alcohol intoxication and was rushed to the hospital. Shortly afterwards a fan named Scot Halpin went on stage and finished the show in Keiths place.
LJkV TIL the largest and most powerful power plant on Earth is the Three Gorges Dam in China. The controversial project produces power for over 60 million people, caused multiple landslides, and even slowed down the Earth’s rotation a fraction of a second.