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TIL: The saxophone sound from the well known Gandalf meme is from Moldova's Eurovision song entry in 2010.

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XEPDR TIL that in 2019, Norway had no traffic accidents that included children casualties
VMLVm TIL on Saturday night (30 March '12), the Chief of the Israeli Navy gave a surprise order for 3 ships to prepare to leave for a 10-day exercise; the men on the ships worked all night only to learn the next morning (1 April '12) that it was all an April Fool's Day joke.
kJOQB TIL Prior to the atomic bombings of Japan, the US learned that the Japanese were planning to kill all POWs if a full scale invasion of Japan were to be put into affect. Over 150,000 Americans were still POWs in 1945.
N759e TIL of Daniel Lewin, who is believed to be the first person murdered in the 9/11 attacks, while attempting to prevent the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11.
08g1 TIL that in New Zealand all websites — including social media sites — must disable commenting on election day because of election silence.