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TIL that the Beatles played Dingwall, Scotland, in 1963 and only 19 people attended

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PYX9G TIL about the Dale, the first space age automobile
5A9D TIL Texas attorney general threatened international observers from OSCE with arrests and criminal charges if they were to monitor the 2012 elections in that state.
wlMo TIL that 4% of the sand on Normandy beaches are still made up of metal particles from D-Day landings
ZPlv TIL that former US Secretary of State, political scientist and Nobel prize winner Henry Kissinger quoted saying “Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” He never denied saying that.
Oo9rR Til the Great Chinese Famine had more deaths in areas at produced more food per capita. Nancy Qian and Pierre Yared showed that aggregate production was sufficient for avoiding famine and that the famine was caused by over-procurement and poor distribution by the government