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TIL: The US National Anthem has 4 verses, but we only sing the first one

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xVYPo TIL of Boudica, a Celtic queen who led a revolt against Roman rule in ancient Britain in A.D. Boudica’s forces had massacred some 70,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons and though her rebellion failed, she is celebrated today as a national heroine and an embodiment of the struggle for justice.
VMpMm TIL The Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, population 220,000, looks over the river at the Chinese city of Heihe, home to almost 2 million. They form a free trade zone where Russians cross into China to go on shopping trips, while Chinese tourists enter Blagoveshchensk daily to take city tours
JYyLV TIL scientists have found "supercorals" in Hawaii’s Kāne’ohe Bay, where a reef is thriving despite development, dredging, sewage and high temperatures.
4XRa6 TIL that "A Quiet Place" was edited on mute for over a month, and the first two cuts of the film were done with absolutely no sound.
JQlk TIL in the 1970s Intervision Song Contest, the Communist equivalent to Eurovision, viewers would vote by turning on lights at a given moment; power plants would measure the load to help determine the winner