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TIL Dixie Land was written by a Unionist, and a favorite song of Abraham Lincoln

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nYn7 TIL Stonehenge has been deconstructed and rebuilt multiple times, making it virtually impossible to know precisely how the monument was originally oriented.
my8p TIL Kellogg C. (The cereal company) has sued a non-profit organization for the use of toucan in their organization for Mayan cultural defense
loZZV TIL, Sandy Koufax, the youngest player ever elected to the Hall Of Fame was devoutly Jewish and alternately refused to pitch or attend workouts on the holidays of Passover, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Yp6Rv TIL the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi were based on the Vietcong guerillas who faced a more technologically advanced foe but originally the events on Endor were to be set on the Wookie home planet. It was changed because Wookies had become technologically skilled over the evolution of the series.
j61Zj TIL that Kanepi, a small town in Estonia, has a cannabis leaf as its flag’s symbol. The town council let community members vote for the new flag, including the pot leaf symbol as an option. 12,000 of the 15,000 votes went to the pot leaf despite Kanepi being a town of fewer than 5,000.