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TIL the Polish National anthem promises coming back from Italy to Poland and the Italian National anthem speaks of spilling Italian and Polish Blood against a common enemy making them uniquely reference to each other.

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kJl61 TIL that in his will, George Washington left directions to emancipate all of the enslaved people that he owned after the death of Martha Washington. On January 1, 1801, all of the enslaved people he owned were freed. The Emancipation Proclamation was put into act on January 1, 1863, 62 years later.
9YQ5B TIL about "Old Tom", an Orca that would help whalers kill baleen whales in exchange for the tongues and lips of the kills (the "Law of the Tongue")
nyEB TIL that on this day (September 16) in 1959, the Xerox 914 copier was introduced to the public in a demonstration at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York, shown on live television, and subsequently revolutionized the industry and office work forever.
OG0nY TIL: On her deathbed in 2005, Hitler's nurse, Erna Fledgal the last survivor of the Fuhrerbunker revealed she found him charming and polite. However, she said Eva Braun had a "colourless" personality and that the death of Hitler's dog affected the staff more than Braun's.
yQ9kp TIL Max Brooks, the author of "World War Z" and son of Mel Brooks, was invited to join the Modern War Institute at West Point as a non-resident fellow to write about non-military issues that could turn violent in the future, such as corporate control of the food chain.