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TIL that Otis Redding’s iconic song 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay' was recorded just days before he died in a plane crash, and it became the first posthumous number-one single in the U.S.

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PYWoE TIL in 1813 the U.S. captured & plundered Toronto - then known as York. This was the reason the British invaded & burned down the White House in 1814.
5VxR8 TIL not a single person who has been born blind has ever been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Scientists believe there is a protective factor between congenital blindness and schizophrenia
E1ZZ0 TIL of the events of Black Monday, 1360. On the first night of the Siege of Chartres the English army, lead by Edward III were camped outside the city walls. In half an hour a freak hailstorm, accompanied by freezing rain, killed nearly 1,000 English soldiers and around 6,000 of their horses.
54Vn TIL The letter R is one of the last sounds to be developed in English possibly because children aren’t always certain what people are doing to produce the sound
NXyw6 TIL - Baby teeth are numbered differently than grown up teeth. Adult teeth are labeled by quadrants 1-4 (which I knew), but baby teeth are labeled by quadrants 5-8.