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TIL the band Rednex, most famous for the song Cotton Eye Joe, is Swedish

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gAb9 TIL the first ever aerial photograph of an American city is of Boston in 1860. The photo, made from a hot air balloon, is titled: “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It”
VBR1Z TIL that in the twenties, the Weimar Republic tried to cancel the nazis in Germany. They shut down more than 99 nazi newspapers, and even Hitler was banned from speaking in several german states from 1925-27.
LQ7yP TIL early in his life, poet Lefkadio Hearn was abandonded by his father, then his mother and was adopted by his great aunt. Eventually, she abandoned him as well and send him to live with one of her former maids
OBGg TIL in the 1st edition of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly bets Bilbo his ring on the outcome of the riddle-game, parting ways amicably. Tolkien changed this to fit The Lord of the Rings. Explaining the original account as a lie made up by Bilbo with subsequent editions containing the “true” account.
EVpW TIL name of the TIME magazine actually stands for “The International Magazine of Events”