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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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GAYyG TIL NASA estimates that Voyager 1 will have enough power to continue communicating until 2025, 48 years after its launch. Its fuel for running the communications equipment, plutonium-238 dioxide, will have decayed too much to generate the required heat to keep them operating.
MyBm TIL the average European still eats less than one tablespoon of U.S. peanut butter in an entire year.
4kKvg TIL-Alexander the Great most likely suffered from Guillain-Barré Syndrome and in all probability, was buried alive!
0aMN TIL that the ice cream cone was first created at the 1904 World’s Fair. An ice cream cart ran out of dishes to serve ice cream, so the neighboring waffle-maker rolled the waffles into cones to serve the ice cream in.
9YvNp TIL The Roman Catholic Church fully accepted the theory of evolution back in 1950. They accept it provided that Christians believe that God created all things and that the individual soul is a direct creation by God and not the product of purely material forces.