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TIL Last invasion of UK failed when French mistook Welsh women in traditional dress for troops

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5YpPP TIL Metallica Feeds the Hungry on Every Stop of Their World Tour
9YmNM TIL that Peter Pan's copyright was donated to a children's hospital in London.
dDAVQ TIL During the Iran/Contra scandal, US President Ronald Reagan’s White House aides thought he was “Inattentive and Inept” and that Article 25 needed to be considered as a way to remove him from office.
m15Py TIL that famous children’s author Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalks Ends, The Giving Tree) wrote Johnny Cash’s famous song A Boy Named Sue.
Wk6lA Today I Learned that "sideburns" get their name from Ambrose Burnside, a former Union general and U.S. senator, who had extravagant whiskers.