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TIL Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ (1981) is credited as the first rap song to ever top the US charts

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ADXZl TIL When the Six Flags Over Texas theme park opened in 1961, it had a section dedicated to the Confederacy where actors would hunt through the crowd for Union "spies" and "execute" them by firing squad, and where boys and girls could sign up to defend the South as soldiers and nurses.
rA0M TIL a homeless girl went to Harvard. She attended 12 schools in 12 years; lived out of garbage bags among pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. She was accepted to more than 20 universities before choosing Harvard.
PQDJ TIL Whites have now come to view anti-White bias as a bigger societal problem than anti-Black bias.
PY8DL TIL that Sylvester Stallone had to rent a tux to wear to the 1976 Academy Awards. Rocky won The Oscar for Best Picture that year.
wLyXE TIL In 2019 a man from the UK spent 7 days running 524 miles (842km) on a treadmill, shattering the previous World Record set in 2015.