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|TIL Everything in Prince's first album was made by himself. He sang all the parts and played all the 27 instruments, including the guitars, bass, synths, drums, windchimes, piano, clavinet, and even the bongos.|[[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/guitar-prince-revolutionized-music-purple-rain-180973083/|Source]]| | |TIL Everything in Prince's first album was made by himself. He sang all the parts and played all the 27 instruments, including the guitars, bass, synths, drums, windchimes, piano, clavinet, and even the bongos.|[[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/guitar-prince-revolutionized-music-purple-rain-180973083/|Source]]| |
|TIL in “Mein Kampf,” Hitler praises America as the one state that has made progress toward a primarily racial conception of citizenship, by “excluding certain races from naturalization.”|[[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler|Source]]| | |TIL in “Mein Kampf,” Hitler praises America as the one state that has made progress toward a primarily racial conception of citizenship, by “excluding certain races from naturalization.”|[[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler|Source]]| |
| |TIL that in the 1630s there was a song only played in the Sistine chapel. The Vatican kept the composition of "Miserere Mei, Deus" secret for 150 years,until 14-year old Mozart listened to it 2 times, transcribed it from memory and produced the first unauthorized copy.Earliest record of music piracy|[[wp>Miserere_(Allegri)|]]| |
| |If NASA had the US military's annual budget, what would it be capable of achieving?|[[:information:funfacts:funfacts:nasa_with_us_military_budget|]]| |
| |TIL that in "understand", "under" means "to be part of" or "to be surrounded by" as for example when you say "under those circumstances". So, to "understand" something, is to stand in the midst of it. And "explain" literally means to flatten, plain out X. So you can "be part of" or "be surrounded by" X once you "understand".| | |
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