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TIL That the Estates Gerneral of 1789 is considered the first step to the French Revolution

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p8l18 TIL Unknown author Janet Frame was scheduled for a frontal lobotomy when it was announced that she had won a national literary prize. The procedure was cancelled.
KOkgQ TIL about Kiviak, a traditional Inuit food from Greenland that consists of up to 500 small birds stuffed into a seal skin and left to ferment for several months. "The fermented intestinal fluids are sucked out from the whole birds, or used as a sauce for other foods."
ZpyLY TIL the Austrlian jewel beetle nearly went extinct because of Emu beer bottles. Their colour and texture drove the male beetles wild with lust, causing them to ignore the females of the species and swarm the bottles until they starved to death or were eaten by other animals.
KYDnQ TIL that Australia is so proud of the Hills Hoist rotary clothesline that it is an offical ‘National Treasure’, has an expat rugby team in London named after it and featured prominently in the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
GALaG TIL that only 1 song used in the film Singin' in the Rain was entirely new. All of the other songs, including Singin' in the Rain, had already been used in previous films in one form or another.