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TIL Massachusetts has the lowest rate of road fatalities by population and per mile of any state

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9w4pD TIL about the Welsh Christmas tradition Mari Lwyd, which entails the use of a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sackcloth, requesting (by singing) to get into people’s houses in order to get food and drinks
MeJYB TIL of Vesta Stoudt. During World War 2, she came up with the idea for duct tape at her factory job. After her supervisors rejected the idea, she wrote president Roosevelt, he liked the idea and gave the letter to the War Production Board
rN1Ox TIL that when Madonna's first single was released, the record label promoted her as a Black artist, down to making the cover a collage of downtown New York featuring Black people rather than a picture of her. This ended when she convinced the label to let her shoot a music video.
GAMbQ TIL that Bobby Caldwell was nominated for Best New Black Artist of the Year in 1979 by Billboard. Bobby did not win after they found out he was White. TI also Learned that Bobby was white.
NXQBJ TIL about Musca depicta, a depiction of a fly as a conspicuous element of various paintings that was widespread in 15th- and 16th-century European paintings. Its presence has been subject to various interpretations by art historians.