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TIL that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not only a longtime opera fan, but has appeared in a cameo role with the Washington National Opera

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x61b0 TIL of the “Christ of Europe”, a Polish concept that sees Poland as a Christ-like martyr for the sins of Europe owing to the historical oppression suffered by the Polish people
OGD1Y TIL the first tests for Kevlar in bulletproof vests was done on goats. After 24 hours, one died. The rest had non-life threatening wounds.
j68Qn TIL someone who hated Barney the Dinosaur figured out that extracting Roman numerals from "cute purple dinosaur" (with V substituted for U) and adding them up gives a sum of 666, the Number of the Beast.
9YJAD TIL - Companies can be affected by the names of other organizations and it is called Damaging Doppelgangers.
yQnNv TIL of the tradition of the Missing Man (a.k.a Fallen Comrade Table) which is used to honor fallen, missing or imprisoned military service members