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TIL That the Winning Eurovision 1990 song was celebrating the creation of the European Common Market due to 1992

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BrLZk TIL that there's a Welsh settlement in Argentina called Y Wladfa, where they speak Patagonian Welsh. It was set up in 1865 as a "little Wales beyond Wales".
m1lBo TIL One of the main struggles for Alexander Graham Bell and his team was to prove to non-English speakers that this new phenomenon "worked in their language." It was a concept that was hard for people to understand at first
b6ek0 TIL William Shatner would hide Leonard Nemoy's bicycle because Nemoy used it to get ahead in line at the commissary, going as far as tying it to rafters or placing it in a room with a territorial doberman.
wLADo TIL That in 1990 when the Chicago White Sox changed their Logo and Hip Hop artists started wearing it, New Era cap company had to stop production of all other team caps and just make White Sox caps to meet the demand.
b6Poj TIL: “Laika” is the name of husky-like breeds of dogs in Russian … but the famous Space Dog—whose name was Laika—was just a mutt, not one of those breeds.