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TIL that the Danes saved almost all Danish Jews during WW2

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l7akG TIL That women on the Isle of Man gained the right to vote in 1881 - 37 years before women in the United Kingdom gained the same right
Y7Me7 TIL there is a 6% rise in car accidents following DST in the spring. It also negatively affects people with depression, anxiety and/or SAD.
VMvrQ TIL that in 2017, The Dallas Morning News apologized for a spelling error in a review of the original Star Wars movie... written in 1977, exactly 40 years to the date. They misspelled the word "Wookiee" as "Wookie", and apologized "to the seven-foot-tall hairy alien biped community" for the error.
69YDX TIL: The most sampled song in the world is "Amen, Brother" by the Winstons. A seven second drum break known as the "Amen Break" has been used in thousands of songs
01aR TIL the creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, based the idea of a character that would never grow up on his older brother who died the day before his 14th birthday, thus remaining a boy forever in his mother’s mind.