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TIL, The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper Delight" was the first rap song to ever reach commercial success

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grlxX TIL Hitler was not a German citizen by birth. He was born in Austria and it was only in 1932 that he became a citizen of the country.
kOK8m TIL the reason why the snowman is abominable, is because of a mistranslation by a journalist. The local name for the creature was "metoh-kangmi" which translates to "man-bear snow-man", but the metoh part was mistranslated as filthy which got later changed to abominable.
LQk6P TIL Moe Howard of The Three Stooges once broke three ribs filming a pratfall. Dazed, he managed to pick himself up off the ground and slap Curly in the face before passing out. The footage ended up being used in the finished short.
ZBwG TIL Animal Planet made a fake documentary about the existence of mermaids… twice!
Go0j TIL that Yogi Berra was ejected from a game after umps ruled that a ball hit by his player hit the concrete wall, which was in play, and not the plywood wall, which would be a home run. Yogi exclaimed, “Anyone who can’t hear the difference between wood and concrete must be blind.”