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TIL that single men in 1900s Argentina paid "professional lady rejectors" to avoid bachelor tax

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oRYaA TIL about Alex Harvey, who co-wrote the song "Delta Dawn" about his mother after she appeared to him in a vision, reassuring him that "it's okay." Ten years earlier, Alex refused to let her visit him at his TV performance, fearing she would embarrass him. She died in a car crash later that night.
LkmX9 TIL Babylonians believed that eclipses were the gods’ way of expressing anger, if the moon appeared in front of the sun, they would literally murder their king. In order to escape this, the king would crown a puppet king and queen days before the eclipse, and kill them instead.
LQ5ar TIL the 2010 song Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce was based on the 1979 song Gotta Go Home by Boney M. The Boney M Song was actually based on the 1973 song Hallo Bimmelbahn by the German band Nighttrain. The wooing vocal sound is meant to sound like a train.
gr1Ob TIL that Trace Adkins cut off his own pinky while trying to open a bucket with a knife; he had doctors put it on at an angle so he could still play guitar. (Also in a separate incident his second ex-wife shot him through his heart and lungs, somehow he survived)
0wYWL TIL J. Cole and ScHoolboy Q were born in the same state, in Germany