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TIL of Kösem Sultan who made donations to the poor, paid people's debts, supplied poor daughters with clothes and wed them, freed slaves after 3 years, in addition to building mosques, & schools. She was given the name Valide-i Muazzama (magnificent mother) upon her death.

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7r1b7 TIL that in 1965, 21 yr old Al Kooper bluffed his way into the studio where Bob Dylan was recording Highway 61 Revisited. Although he didn't know how to play the Hammond organ or even turn it on, his improvised intro & off the beat riffs became the signature groove & sound of "Like A Rolling Stone".
WkLGB TIL nonviolent resistance movements are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent ones, due in large part to their greater potential to elicit mass participation.
ANDDd TIL of Mike McGear, real name Mike McCartney, the younger brother of Sir Paul McCartney who set out on his own musical career four years after the Beatles' first hit
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