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TIL That Poll Taxes disenfranchised voters as late as 1964 when the 24th Amendment was finally ratified

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BgyMb TIL that after the success of the charity supergroup Band Aid, metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio organized a heavy metal charity album called Hear 'n Aid. With contributions by Dio, Motorhead, Rush, Kiss, Scorpions and others, it raised $3 million.
LQE9P TIL there was a UK adaptation of the American show Golden Girls called "The Brighton Belles". The British version was released a year after the Golden Girl's final episode and was nearly identical to the original except for name changes.
xDd5 TIL words and phrases that are often misspoken or misspelled in a certain way (e.g. “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”) are called eggcorns, with the term itself being an eggcorn for the word “acorn”.
PPVL TIL that Astronomers had made a sweet discovery: simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets.
MeLO7 Today I learned about Serica, a silk-producing country in East Asia whose existence the Ancient Greek and Romans were aware of. It was probably modern northern China.