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TIL Alabama Song, made famous by the Doors, was originally written as a poem by Bertolt Brecht in 1925.

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LE9Q TIL that due to a bug in the Constitution, if the Vice President is impeached he will preside over his own trial
yD5l TIL Geena Davis tried out for the 2000 Sydney Olympics in archery. She placed 24th out of 300 women, but did not qualify for the Olympics
91kp TIL that the first Grand Wizard of the KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, tried to disband the group after he thought that they had become too violent.
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