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TIL that Ottoman military music, as a genre, is alive and well to this day

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VBVB8 TIL that Thuy Trang, the actress who played the original yellow Power Ranger, was one of the Vietnamese boat people who left Vietnam on a boat after the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War
d8rb8 TIL about Doug Hegdahl, a POW during the Vietnam War, who memorized the names, dates of capture, method of capture and personal details of 256 fellow POWs to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had A Farm." He can still recite it to this day.
k5kB TIL 1992 an officer in the Soviet KGB defected to the west brining with him thousands of notes he took during his career in the KGB archives. These notes reveal the KGB’s hand in framing the US government for the Kennedy assassination, spreading the rumor that AIDs was a US invention, and much more.
oBMxW TIL 70% of guns used by the Mexican cartels are smuggled in from the US
XEPAj TIL the human Coronavirus causes approximately 15% of cases of the common cold