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TIL that David Bowie’s son was known as 'Zowie Bowie' to rhyme with his fathers stage name.

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GYZjE TIL The Philippines has its own version of apple pie made from coconuts and condensed milk. Buko pie is believed to be invented by Soledad Pahud, she discovered apple pie while working as a maid in the United States, she returned to the Philippines where the lack of apples led to her coconut recipe.
M7Dym TIL there was no use of green screen or visual effects in the music video for A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
oRw9R TIL that Ayds candy helped you lose weight!
KYJaE TIL Abraham Lincoln actually liked the song “Dixie” despite its confederate association. After Richmond was captured he requested a band play it saying “Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it.”
DNKe TIL that the Algerian national anthem was first written in blood on a prison cell wall by an Algerian revolutionary who was imprisoned by the French colonial regime