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TIL there is a subgenre of Irish Folk Songs concerning the American Civil War. Around 200k Irishmen fought in the war, 90% of which fought for the Union.

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dDPm8 TIL Paris Baguette is a South Korean bakery chain that has more than 600 stores outside Korea, and it is not related to France or Paris a bit.
R7g7w TIL IQ tests ‘do not reflect intelligence’, and are rarely accurate if given as a singular exam.
npdG TIL that “Third World” countries are not defined by their economy or development. Instead they are all the countries that were neither aligned with the US and its allies (first world) nor the USSR and its allies (second world) during the Cold War.
mxKGp TIL Galaga (1981) had a predecessor: Galaxian (1979), which was the first popular video game to use RGB color graphics.
W74nA TIL Antillia doesn't exists but Antilles are the caribean islands