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TIL Carlos Santana was the first Hispanic Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee in 1998

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wop7M TIL Port Hedland, a tiny little town in North Western Australia, is home to the 2nd largest bulk export port in the world and the #1 highest tonnage port in Australia with annual throughput of over 500 million tonnes of mostly iron ore headed to China.
VBlwB TIL that according to a survey, 64.6% of women knew they wanted to go out with the last guy they went on a date with within the first 10 minutes of meeting him. This implies that waiting for the right moment to ask a girl out is not a good idea.
d8OQ9 TIL In 1972, eight people at a dinner party snorted lines of powdered LSD thinking it was cocaine. After 10 minutes, five of them were comatose, but all recovered after 12 hours with no ill effects.
yWj8 TIL there is a German children’s book from 1845 about three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, Saint Nicolas dips the three boys in black ink, to make them even darker-skinned than the boy they’d teased.
wKQ6 TIL The White House Correspondent’s Dinner was men-only until 1962, when JFK refused to attend unless women did.