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TIL The Battle Hymn of the Republic was used as a French Christmas carol called "Glory Alleluia"

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M8OK TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”
8ekPK TIL, in my first-time post you all, there are 5 types of color-blindness
96lG TIL Grand Central Station, due to it’s granite construction, is radioactive enough to fail an inspection if it were a nuclear power station.
xV6b0 TIL A father of five worked 23 years as a custodian for Boston College so all of his children could attend the university for free. They all graduated and together saved nearly $700,000 in tuition. =)
BgYd TIL that the Seinfeld episode where Jerry refuses to race by cryptically telling people “I choose not to run” is a play on Calvin Coolidge, who said nearly the same thing when he decided not to run for re-election in 1928.