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TIL Poland's national anthem mentions Napoleon Bonaparte, praising him as "he who has shown us ways to victory"

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MeKGm TIL that in 1885 Chief Sitting Bull spent four months playing himself in reconstructions of Custer’s Last Stand for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Historians are divided as to whether he cursed the audiences in the Lakota language during his performance.
x6kxo TIL, hooved animals are born with Cinderella slippers
ZpeGD TIL why Californians (especially in SoCal) refer to their freeways as "the (highway)" (eg. "the 5", "the 101", etc.)
e0JVg TIL: A pop group was formed in Japan with the aim of "singing and dancing away" its insolvent members' personal debt.
44W5 TIL that as an American. This will be the first Veterans Day observed without a living World War One veteran.