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TIL following his death at the Battle of Little Big Horn, the reputation of General George Custer was rehabilitated by his widow, who spent decades promoting his image as as the "gallant fallen hero amid the glory of Custer's Last Stand".

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1aDWW TIL that Robin Williams wanted to play the role of Rubeus Hagrid in the film adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". However, Williams was turned down due to a "British actors-only" hiring edict.
nVjb TIL 1/3 of divorce filings in 2011 contained the word “Facebook”
AN9p7 TIL the 1999 hit song She's So High was written and performed by the son of one of the founders of the Guess Who and BTO
nWlJr TIL there's a spinning, floating island in Argentina
oVXL TIL: Shin Dong-hyuk is the only man in recorded history to escape a North Korean concentration camp in the “total control zone” and live to tell of it. He works tirelessly to alert the world to the vicious human rights abuses in North Korea’s brewing holocaust.