#ThisWeekinUSNigeriaHistory in 1983, Americaโs Billboard 200 welcomed a groundbreaking sound from Nigeria: King Sunny Adรฉโs Jรนjรบ Music spent 29 weeks on the U.S. chart, introducing his innovative sound to American audiences.
For 40 years, it stood as the longest-charting album by a Nigerian artist โ until another Nigerian artist made history in 2023.
American audiences have long embraced the creativity and innovation coming from Nigeria. Can you guess which album ended King Sunny Adรฉโs 41-year reign? Drop your guess below!
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1. The vagina is about ten times cleaner than the mouth. No matter how you brush your teeth always, the mouth is still the dirtiest part of the body.
2. Your intestines know what shape they're supposed to be in, and can move themselves, which means surgeons can just stuff them back into you when they're done and they'll sort themselves out.
3. When you do tattoo removal, the ink doesn't disappear, you pee it out. Your body's immune system breaks down the pigments of ink and it flows in your blood stream, gets processed through your kidneys, then you pee out the ink.
4. If you hit your chest at a very specific time in the electrical cycle your heart will stop.
5. The pain you feel from a sunburn is your skin cells effectively killing themselves before they mutate into cancer.
6. The way your eyes are shaped causes your vision to be upside down but your brain flips the image automatically.
7. When you die, your hearing is the last to go. So imagine you die in a fire or in a war or something and the last thing you hear is like screaming and chaos
8. The length of a man's penis is equal to the length of his thumb times 3
9. Everyone's tongue print is different, just like fingerprint.
10. Babies have 94 More Bones Than Adults.
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12. Your heart pumps about 2,500 gallons of blood every day.
โThe creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another.โ
Wole Soyinka has been characterised as one of the finest poetical playwrights to have written in English.
Rome built stadiums to stop its own people from rising up. Two thousand years later, we're still walking into the same trap โ only we pay for it now.
Al Jazeera's Basel Ghazoghli breaks it down.
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Black Americans
Influenced Convicted Of A Suppose Crime In The USA Than
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