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TIL Vietnamese don’t call it the Vietnam War, they call it the Resistance War Against America

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0wQQj TIL about the Via Francigena, a 1300-year-old Camino-style pilgrimage route from Canterbury through France and Italy to Rome.
wL6M8 TIL about the "Wow! signal", the strongest candidate for an alien radio transmission ever detected, received in 1977, by the Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio.
awDyA TIL that Nikola Tesla was at the first party to have a stripper jump out of a cake
BgQme TIL Shirley Temple hated the mocktail of lemon-lime soda/ginger ale and grenadine named after her, declaring it "too sweet". In 1988, she won a lawsuit to stop a bottled version from using her name.
N7vLN TIL of Elizabeth Lundy, the "grandmother of the Canadian Army". Starting in 1914, she knit 400 pairs of socks for Canadian soldiers serving overseas.