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TIL in 2004, every single Billboard Hot 100 number 1 hit was made by a Black artist.

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ABWg TIL that Autrian ethologist Karl von Frisch was nominated for the Noble Prize in 1927 for his work on deciphering the Waggle dance of honey bees. Using the Waggle dance, a bee communicates to other worker bees the direction and distance of the most productive flowers using the angle of the sun.
P1Jje TIL of English lawyer Frederic Weatherly (1848–1929), who inadvertently created the coxless fours in rowing by jumping out of the boat at the start of the race to save weight. Oh, yeah, and he also wrote about 3,000 song lyrics, including "Danny Boy".
rMQw TIL in Victorian London it was theorized that diseases like Cholera (which killed tens of thousands) were spread by bad-smelling air, until a scientist named Jon Snow determined water was the culprit - he became known as the father of modern epidemiology.
YJwW TIL that early in its history, sperm donation had a taste test as part of the screening process.
Wk6xX TIL Atheist churches exist and they're styled after Mega Churches in the United States. Located in places like Dublin, Sydney, and New York, they are places for Atheists to replicate the Church experience.