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TIL Rick Astley sung back up vocals on Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.”

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WXoB TIL Germans score higher than the English on IELTS, The International English Language Testing System
yQnJ8 TIL the Space Force emblem isn’t copied from Star Trek. The army airforce used the logo as far back as the 1940s. The starfleet logo was influenced by the military, not the other way around.
ZpKpG TIL in 1804, a Haitian force comprised mostly of former slaves went house-to-house torturing and killing most of the remaining European population. Between 3,000 and 5,000 were killed.
yQ5MM TIL “Blazing Saddles” was the first movie to have a fart joke.
MewW TIL Muslims do not “struggle” to pray in space, and Islamic scholars have convened on the topic twice and published their scholarly opinions in “Muslim Obligations in the International Space Station”