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TIL: A Detroit musician living in poverty didn’t know that in South Africa, he was more popular than the Beatles.

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OGeW1 TIL that after a mention that Paul McCartney liked Jelly Babies, fans started throwing them at the Beatles during live concerts. In the USA, fans started throwing jelly beans at them after mistaking them to be the same thing. One concert had to be stopped twice because the Beatles kept getting hit.
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9Yxbr TIL that Costa Rica went 300 days on 100% renewable energy in 2017.
ADGJo TIL that women in 1776 - 1807 era New Jersey had equal voting rights
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