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TIL Fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga spent 438 days alone on a boat adrift at Sea

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Bg7lL TIL Labi Siffre denied Dr Dre the rights to use his sample on Eminem's "My Name Is" until homophobic and sexist lyrics were removed. In an interview, he said "Dissing the victims of bigotry – women as bitches, homosexuals as faggots – is lazy writing. Diss the bigots not their victims."
v14Qj TIL that virtually every thoroughbred racehorse in existence can be traced back to exactly 3 sires brought to England in the 17th century: the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian, and the Byerly Turk.
WKOY TIL the Soviet Union promoted junk science to such an extent that it spawned a new word - “Lysenkoism” - which is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological basis.
p8OrG TIL the last lynching in Alabama wasn't 100+ years ago. It was the lynching of Michael Donald in 1981!
vxQ4 TIL Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears.