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TIL About a cafe full of manji or swastikas

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wora6 TIL that Ricky Martin plagiarized the "shake your bon bon" chorus from Soul Coughing's Super Bon Bon and lead singer Mike Doughty accused his songwriters of not contacting him about the aforementioned part
GYvQJ TIL about Sixto Rodriguez, an American musician who gave up recording in 1976 after his debut albums did poorly in the US. 20 years later, his daughter found out that he'd become famous in South Africa, where he was compared to Bob Dylan, with some of his songs even known as anti-apartheid anthems.
1ad4P TIL of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, a Sicilian political party thats goal was the annexation of Sicily into the United States. Its best electoral result was in 1947, when it won 8.8% of the votes in the Sicilian regional election and had nine regional deputies elected.
D18QP TIL the smallest US post office is in the middle of the Florida Everglades, the Ochopee Post Office - it was originally a 7x8' shed for a tomato farm!
8ekJ8 TIL the reason why old sports photos often have a blue haze is because the arenas were filled with people smoking cigarettes