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TIL American captives in the Vietnam war would authenticate a new prisoner’s American identity by tapping the first five notes of “Shave and a Haircut”, against a cell wall, and waiting for the appropriate response

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a8K0 TIL that the Roe effect is an hypothesis which suggests that since supporters of abortion rights cause the erosion of their own political base by having fewer children, the practice of abortion will eventually lead to the restriction or illegalization of abortion.
rR7Zw TIL Shun Fujimoto won a gold medal in Olympic Gymnastics against the USSR despite having a broken leg during his performance.
ADnAa TIL that in 2010 Weezer began to perform Wheatus' song "Teenage Dirtbag" during their shows because so many people believed that it was a Weezer song and they didn't have the heart to tell them that they were wrong.
M7Ab7 TIL about the Kadaknath chicken breed in India. Because of melanin pigmentation, the entire chicken is black or grey-black in colour, including plumage, legs and toenails, beak, tongue, comb and wattles; even the meat, bones, blood and organs
woXd7 TIL that Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Church, aka Mormon Church, was assassinated in 1844 in Illinois by a mob. He was running for president at the time and is the first presidential candidate in US History to be assassinated