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TIL Texans at the Alamo were fighting for certain freedoms and a more liberal judicial system. One of the freedoms they were seeking was the right to own slaves, prohibited under Mexican law.

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yQaMe TIL Whitesnake's 1987 no. 1 hit song, Here I Go Again, was actually a re recording of their 1982 version that never charted. There is only a one word difference in the lyrics. They changed "hobo" to "drifter" to ensure it was no longer mistakenly heard as homo.
R7DZQ TIL devious cheesemakers of the 17th century coloured their cheese orange to pass their skim-milk products off as the full-fat, naturally yellowish-orange cheese that Londoners had come to expect, starting the tradition of dying cheese orange.
wJLE TIL that Doug’s neighbors on the 90’s cartoon Doug were named Mr. and Mrs. Dink because “DINK” means Double Income No Kids.
yQZ8w TIL in 1991, an Australian singer pretended to have been kidnapped in order to boost her flagging career. She’d been missing for two days when she was found tied up in a road, claiming that she had been abducted by a fan and assaulted. Two weeks later she admitted that she’d made it all up.
e0eM6 TIL that a fake smile is called 'The Pan Am smile', named after the airline Pan American World Airways, whose flight attendants would always flash every passenger the same superficial smile.