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TIL that a Vindaloo curry is typically not hot and fiery and actually made with garlic and vinegar or wine

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pYebQ TIL that Kate Bush is generally regarded as the first ever singer to use a wireless radio microphone on stage, made out of a wire clothes hanger, which allowed her to incorporate extensive dance routines into her live shows.
1axyO TIL that Roald Dahl author of charlie and the chocolate factory and Matilda was the author behind the screenplay for "You only live twice" despite having no experience writing a screenplay except for a movie unfinished called "The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling"
ADAM4 TIL of of Thomas Granger, one of the first people executed in the colonies, a Pilgrim teenager. He was hung for having sex with many animals including sheep "too numerous to count". And one turkey.
k4M7 TIL: The murder rate by firearms is less than half of what it was 20 years ago in the USA (6.6 per 100K in 1993 vs 3.2 per 100K now)
5YLNQ TIL-The Choctaw fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy