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TIL that Grimes was once featured in a Kpop music video

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1aan7 TIL that town planning was once an Olympic event, as were several other architectural disciplines. The Olympics were to be about the arts as much as sport and contestants could compete in literature, music and several other non-sporting pursuits
oBV7r TIL that Christopher Booker shows that basically all stories in fiction can be generalized into seven basic plot types. He worked on his book "the Seven Basic Plots" for 34 years before releasing it.
kDl5 TIL Karl Marx sent a letter to Abraham Lincoln congratulating him on causing the death of slavery