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TIL White Star Line billed the families for uniforms of staff who died on the Titanic

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mwNE TIL there was a famous 18th century racehorse named Potoooooooo. His original name was Potatoes. Potatoes acquired the strange spelling of his nickname, Pot-8-Os, when a stable lad was asked to write it on a feed bin. The lad’s version, Potoooooooo, was said to amuse his lordship so he kept it.
OGYXX TIL The fiddle part in "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is taken from a Vassar Clements song called "Lonesome Fiddle Blues"
XEnZX TIL Irish Guardsman Edward Charlton was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for using a .30 cal machine gun to stop a numerically superior German force from overrunning his unit’s position. Ironically, many accounts of his actions came from the opposing Germans.
mvxv TIL in 40 of 50 states, coding classes don’t count towards high school graduation math or science requirements
APLd TIL the first country to send a man-made object into space was Nazi Germany in 3 October 1942