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TIL in WW2, Nazis rigged skewed-hanging-pictures with explosives in buildings that would be prime candidates for Allies to set up a command post from. When Ally officers would set up a command post, they tended to straighten the pictures, triggering these “anti-officer crooked picture bombs”

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WkROA TIL Vikram Seth missed the Penguin deadline for submitting his anticipated sequel novel "A Suitable Girl" in 2017 due to suffering from writer's block as a result of the failure of a relationship. As of 2020 the novel was still unfinished
x6o01 TIL of "set de flo'", an old African-American type of dance contest in which participants would do specific dance moves inside a circle on the floor; if you step outside the circle, you lose. Sometimes they would balance a glass of water on their head for extra challenge.
X0PGj TIL about ball lightning, which are luminescent, spherical objects that can appear and last for over a minute before disappearing either quietly or as an explosion, leaving behind the smell of sulfur. There is no definitive explanation for them.
rN1wy TIL that the first American Artist to cover a Beatles song was Del Shannon with his 1963 cover of "From Me to You". Del Shannon's cover also became the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts when it entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 29th, 1963
AD6bl TIL a new religion has emerged in Tennessee that believes all US voting days are a religious holiday, legally allowing all members to vote by mail. They have Ministers in Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia.