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TIL the melody used by the Boney M hit "Rasputin" actually comes from a Turkish folk song called "Katibim."

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b91rE TIL South America's only existing monarchy is in Bolivia. In the 1830s, enslaved men on a plantation realised Prince Uchicho - a noble from the Kingdom of Kongo, Africa - laboured amongst them. They crowned him King and, reognised by the state, his descendents preside over the same region today.
p8jyG TIL the lyrics to Dropkick Murphys' "Shipping Up to Boston" were written by folk singer Woody Guthrie (of "This Land is Your Land" fame)
lokgG TIL American cyclist Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France win due to doping, later became a whistleblower for the World Anti-Doping Agency and the U.S. government, which would eventually result in the investigation of his former teammate, Lance Armstrong.
OEE7 TIL Mohammed V, monarch of Morocco, and Vichy French colonial subject was ordered to produce a list of Jewish subjects, he responded: “There are no Jews in Morocco. There are only Moroccans”“
76L TIL that Abraham Lincoln’s voice was very high and even remarked as “shrill”