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TIL John Denver and his co-writer had never even been to West Virginia when they put out "Country Roads"

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690vZ TIL Puerto Rico has a massive problem with overflowing landfills
b6ja4 TIL that in the 19th century, photographers used a technique called "combination printing" to create seamless images by merging multiple negatives, allowing for artistic compositions and overcoming technical limitations of early photography.
4XWOR TIL that in 1660, Scottish writer Thomas Urquhart died from laughter after hearing that Charles II had came back to the throne.
kJBo1 TIL that Mumbai (then known as Bombay) was a Portuguese colony before it came under British rule as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, (daughter of King John IV of Portugal) in her marriage to King Charles II.
epO0D TIL that Phan Thi Mao, a young Vietnamese woman, was kidnapped and repeatedly abused by US soldiers in 1966, only one of those soldiers decided to stand up for her and reported the situation, this event became known as the “incident on Hill 192”