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TIL Japanese schools make children square dance to the tune of “Turkey in the Straw,” and call it an “Oklahoma Mixer”

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ZpywQ TIL 80s film fixture actress Jami Gertz is currently part owner of the Atlanta Hawks
woERP TIL since 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering a prize of 1 million dollars to the person that can prove the Riemann Hypothesis. No one has been able to prove it since it was formulated by Bernhard Riemann in 1860.
1a9vW TIL that the first message sent across the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable, on August 16, 1858, read, "Directors of Atlantic Telegraph Company, Great Britain, to Directors in America:—Europe and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God in the highest; on earth peace, good will towards men."
e0BoD TIL: The term "Third World" originated during the cold war, and was used to refer to countries that were neither aligned with NATO (the "first world") or the Communist Bloc (the "second world"). Under the original definition, Sweden, Finland and Austria are "third world countries".
rNOXy TIL that goal number 15,000 in the Premier League was scored by Moritz Volz