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TIL ZZ Top album “Eliminator” was certified diamond by the RIAA while never having a #1 single

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9kZp TIL Margaret Thatcher was one of the few Conservative MPs to support Bill to decriminalize male homosexuality in 1966.
REa9 TIL : there is an ongoing electrical storm in Venezuela ( Catatumbo lightning ) that’s been going on for years
oB8ZL TIL Terry Davis an american programmer created his own operating system “TempleOS” while diagnosed with schizophrenia and claimed to be the smartest programmer ever to live
W7GVL TIL in a private letter from 1521, Niccolo Machiavelli describes reading his mail in the toilet seat. Stuck on a boring work trip, he proceeds to ask his pen pal to send him fat folders stuffed with papers and make the mailman run, to prank the nosey monks who tried to pry at his letters
0BlM TIL that Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day holiday, later became unhappy with its commercialization and began organizing a petition to rescind Mother’s Day. She was placed in a sanitarium, and people connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her there.