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TIL that Oman has a strong tradition of Scottish bagpipe music, owing to their Sultan having served in a Scottish regiment of the British Army

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9wN5G TIL that in 1978 the band Little Roger and the Goosebumps released a single, "Gilligan's Island (Stairway)", that combined the lyrics of the Gilligan's Island theme with the music of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".
Bg6Vy TIL over half of the states in the US impose a strict mandatory retirement age on their state’s Supreme Court, with age 70 being required for 18 of them
WkNMN TIL: In 1999, Garry Kasparov faced the rest of the world in a game of chess. Moves were decided through a plurality vote involving 50,000 people from more than 75 countries. Kasparov won the game.
BVKy Today I learned that the phrase “First World War” was in use to describe the war from 1914-1918 as early as 1920, 19 years before there was a second world war
o1ao TIL Not all vampires were staked through the heart, some were staked through the leg to prevent them from rising from their coffins [post from /r/archeology]