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TIL There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written

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epMjk TIL: That the Don McLean song "Vincent" was a particular favorite of the rapper and actor Tupac Shakur. The song was played to him at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, the hospital that he was admitted to just before he died of gunshot wounds from a drive-by shooting.
W7Vp8 TIL a politician made up the U.S. state name “Idaho” after meeting a girl named Ida. He falsely claimed it was a Native American term.
XoBE TIL that Nikola Tesla was voluntarily chaste, despite numerous women “vying for his affections… some even madly in love with him”, because he believed sex inhibited his abilities to think in a scientific manner
xVrk7 TIL Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time" was originally written for TLC
Me5mW TIL wartime psychoanalysts correctly predicted of Hitler that: As the war turns against him, his emotions will intensify and will have outbursts more frequently. His public appearances will become much rarer, because he's unable to face a critical audience