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TIL of Reintegrationism, a cultural movement in Galicia, Spain that advocates for Galician and Portuguese to be considered a single language, Galician-Portuguese.

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4XvX5 TIL that Buddy Holly's wife found out about his death while watching TV and suffered a miscarriage the next day due to "psychological trauma"; his mother heard the news on the radio and collapsed. Soon after, authorities adopted a policy of notifying a victim's family before their name was released.