If You Have Any Of These Classic Vinyl Records, You're Actually Holding On To a Small Fortune

Band-Aid, Do They Know It's Christmas

This iconic supergroup features members of U2, Duran Duran, Culture Club, and more. The benefit song, Do They Know It's Christmas, was recorded as a means to donate to the famine in Ethiopia. It sold 11.7 million copies.

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The More You Know

  • In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
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