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TIL Jónsi, the lead singer in Sigur Rós, once forgot the lyrics while performing with the band in France. He improvised and kept on singing in Icelandic “ Oh shit, I forgot the lyrics, but that’s o.k. because I’m in France where no one understands me.”

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aeN0 TIL that just a single pound of spider web could form a single strand long enough to stretch around the equator
16ZYP TIL there is a Civil War Diorama museum in Gettysburg that depicts the battle scenes fought by cats.
x6NPk TIL the most effective surrender leaflet in WW2 was known as the "Passierschein". It was designed to appeal to German sensibilities for official, fancy documents printed on nice paper with official seals and signatures. It promised safe passage and generous treatment to any who presented it.
VMgdZ TIL Liechtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.
l7WG7 TIL On August 9, 1942, a starving orchestra performed Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, in besieged Leningrad during WWII, using music as an act of defiance against Nazi forces.