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TIL that Emenim performed the song Kim, after promising her he wouldn’t, while she was in the front row of concert. She immediately left the concert, got in a car wreck and then proceeded to slit her wrist once she made it home.

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NXkYN TIL Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, founded the Green Belt Movement, which planted tens of millions of trees in Kenya. She faced imprisonment and violent opposition for her environmental and pro-democracy activism
M7krb TIL that the earliest generation with a formal name ("Arthurian Generation") is, coincidentally, Generation A by the informal lettered system. The only ones that DON'T from there are Q (often lumped in with P), X (the first to even get a letter), Z (names proposed but disputed), and α (too recent).
m1Rwv TIL The Beatles (then the Quarrymen) paid 17s 6d (87.5p or £25.82 in 2023) for their first recording session in 1958.
69Bmw TIL about the most extensive, longest and largest mountain range on Earth, that is nearly 65,000km long, but more than 90% of it is located 2,500m underwater and it’s spreading at 2 to 16cm per year
VM8dB TIL the melody for the “alphabet song” was written by Mozart