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TIL The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde first started out creating a project called (Mike Hunt's) Dishonorable Discharge

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rLkW TIL that much graffiti from the walls of the ancient city of Pompeii have been unearthed and translated, showing that human behavior has remained unchanged in the past 2000 or so years.
70Xr TIL that Irish soldiers that helped England during WW2 were labeled deserters and traitors by Ireland and were not allowed to get government jobs when they returned home. They did not receive pardons until 2013.
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