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TIL That The House of the Rising Sun also rhymes in Old French

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0wZxL TIL of Ben Carlin, the first and only person to circumnavigate the globe in an amphibious vehicle. He traveled 17,780 kilometers (11,050 mi) by sea and 62,744 kilometers (38,987 mi) by land over ten years in his modified Ford.
woylY TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States & mastermind behind the D Day attacks was the president of Columbia University.
rN6Z0 TIL Ice-T made up a gang to keep real gang members off his back in high school. “We actually created a fake gang. We told people we were part of the Hillside Crips. We had them thinking there was hundreds of us. I never had any trouble.”
gMBrW TIL Xi Jinping's dad, Xi Zhongxun, was the only high ranking CCP member who defended, albeit unsucessfully, massively popular liberal reformist Hu Yaobang from being removed from office by Deng Xiaoping. Hu's purge and death years later sparked the Tiananmen Square protests.
BL9L TIL There are two Underground stations at Victoria in London that are connected and were built more than a century apart