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TIL That Amish men shave their mustache due to its long association with military tradition.

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OMV1 TIL Daniel Day-Lewis was performing on stage as Hamlet when, while acting out the scene where Hamlet talks to his dead father, he believed he saw the ghost of his own father. He ran off the stage, refused to go back on, and hasn’t done theater since.
VEek TIL that in ‘The X-Files’, aliens begin their colonization of Earth on December 22nd, 2012.
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mO0p TIL that the song “Black Betty”, popularized by Ram Jam in 1977, was originally an African-American work song.