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TIL That the National Animal of Scotland is the Unicorn
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TIL of Marvin Maples, a Tennessee grandfather who kidnapped his grandchildren and moved to San Diego where they assumed false identities for 20 years. Maples claimed his daughter and her husband were a part of a Satanic cult and regularly abused their children.
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TIL that B92, a dissident radio station in Serbia, played Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' on repeat when they were banned from broadcasting news. The song became an anti-Milošević anthem in 1991.
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TIL the paving rocks of the Champs Élisées come from Saudi Arabia
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TIL that the earliest known depiction of a handshake is an ancient Assyrian relief of the 9th century BC depicting the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III shaking the hand of the Babylonian King Marduk-Zakir-Shumi I to seal an alliance.
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TIL That after the news of the Dien Bien Phu's fall. The Archbishop of Paris ordered a mass, all entertainment activities are halted and radio performances are replaced with solemn music.