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TIL That Chumbawamba was still a band, until today.

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1QN7 TIL The Department of Veterans Affairs still issues a monthly pension payment to 84-year-old Irene Triplett, for her father’s service in the Union Army during the US Civil War.
9wx9m TIL that in 1990 filmmaker Martin Scorsese played Vincent Van Gogh in Akira Kurosawa’s film ‘Dreams’.
M71Q7 TIL that the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology conducted an "autopsy" of the failed Friendster social network to determine the causes of its collapse
oBreY TIL Starbucks uses round tables because research shows they are more welcoming than those with square edges and people look less alone while seated at a round table.
vPRQR TIL On Sept 1st 1857 New York had a parade to celebrate the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project took four years to complete and the line failed later that month. It was not until 1866 when communications reopened after the third line was laid (the second line snapped at sea).