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TIL the Star-Spangled Banner has only been the US National Anthem for 91 years.

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yQYbX TIL that Christina Aguilera was heavily criticized by Aaron Lewis, the lead vocalist of Staind, for singing the wrong lyrics when performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the World Series. Three years later, Lewis made the same mistake when he performed the anthem at the same event.
VMZbk TIL the perfect Japanese pangram (a sentence using every letter of an alphabet once) is not a nonsensical phrase like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - It's actually a poem called the Iroha, which is considered so perfect it has provided the ordering of Japanese syllabary since 1079.
e1b5 TIL it’s proven that no more than four colors are required to color a map so that no two adjacent regions have the same color
XERNQ TIL Fiat's Lingotto factory was built in 1923 as five stories with a racetrack on top. With an upward assembly line, production began at the bottom floor and progressed upward until completion. When a Fiat finished its climb through 16,000,000 sq. feet, it exited by roof and was raced by employees.
X0JxD TIL that actor Brad Renfro, child/teen star in The Client and Tom and Huck, was "discovered" through connections with his D.A.R.E. officer. He passed away from an overdose in 2008 at the age of 25.