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TIL: Norteño Mexican music is highly influenced by polka music

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ADOAd TIL when 9/11 hijacker Fayez Banihammad applied for a visa into the United Sates in 2000, he did not list an occupation or reason to visit and wrote No as to where he would be living. He was later granted a visa through the Visa Express program.
X0DyQ Til Boxing day in the UK has to do with a tradition of boxing up presents to give to the poor and has nothing to do with boxing the sport
0wn7R TIL Not long after Julius Caesar was assassinated, a comet shone for seven successive days. This signified Julius Caesar's ascension to Godhood, and propaganda for Caesar's nephew. The comet was described as: "To make that soul a star that burns forever, Above the Forum and the gates of Rome."
neeQB Shopkeeper removing the word, ‘Italian’ from the sign above his restaurant in Soho, London during WW II, after anti-Italian riots throughout Britain.
gMYKA TIL one of the great results of the 'Cassini' mission was the finding that the beautiful Saturn rings are a transient structure. In about a hundred million years, the ring will disappear, leaving behind a depleted version of Jupiter with less shimmering colors.