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TIL About Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican Nationalist who attacked the US House of Representatives to protest the forced takeover of Puerto Rico, shooting Five US Congressmen

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ANPy7 TIL Lucy Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), a British adventurer and archaeologist, discovered a 7-foot tall Greco-Roman statue which she then smashed into pieces and tossed into the Mediterranean because she wanted to prove to the Ottoman government that she had no interest in stealing their antiquities.
yVldV TIL that Cher has had a single reach Number 1 on a Billboard chart in each of the last SEVEN decades.
XaWQ TIL that when a phrase or word is slowly deteriorated over time due to pronunciation, and ends up being said or spelled incorrectly in a widely accepted way (such as, “all intensive purposes” vs “all intents and purposes”) it is called an “eggcorn”
bO7Z TIL that Rajiv Surendra, the rapping mathlete from Mean Girls, is now an incredibly sought-after calligrapher