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TIL that ridiculously long nails was the hot trend in Vietnam during the 1920’s.

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Zp8ga TIL about “The deadly accordion wars of Lesotho” where you can be murdered for playing music. “After one Famo musician allegedly shot another in 2004, a cycle of revenge developed, fuelled by poisonous lyrics in songs.” This has now led to Lesotho having the sixth-highest homicide rate in the world.
DRpg TIL Germany’s World War II invasion of France was aided by crystal meth. New research says tablets of the stimulant enabled German troops to stay awake for three days and three nights and push through the Ardennes mountains.
b6B8Q TIL: In the 1950s, the Army to built a bunker close to Washington DC so that Congress could go there if there was a nuclear attack. Engineers built a facility 700 ft below a golf course - 2 stories and over 100,000 sq ft - kept secret until 1992, when the Washington Post revealed its existence.
pYGV4 TIL Frank Sinatra was once trapped in Australia by a country-wide strike, in response to the singer's horrible behavior
womlM TIL that 'Uptown Funk' was released over a month early in the UK owing to a performance by a contestant on The X Factor, which resulted in that version going to #1 on iTunes