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TIL that Greece has the world's longest national anthem. It consists of 158 stanzas and would take around 55 minutes to sing in full.

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88oZ TIL that almost 10 years ago, PETA offered $15k to the town of Hamburg to change name to Veggieburg
wPnJ TIL that the word “basketcase” is WWI slang for a soldier who had lost all 4 limbs and needed to be carried in a basket.
5xKp TIL that the word “scientist” did not exist until 1833; before that time they were called “natural philosophers.”
X68R TIL the only American not on Earth during 9/11 [Frank L. Culberston] recorded the event from the ISS. He later learned that the pilot of the plane that struck The Pentagon was a classmate of his from the US Naval Academy [Charles Burlingame].
BjpW TIL hog-morse happened when rookie telegraph users made timing errors. One alleged case concerns the similarity of “L” and “T”. A customer sent a request for “undressed staves (wood)” to a Virginia firm. Due to hog-morse, “slaves” was sent instead. The firm reminded the sender that slavery was over.