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TIL that the term “hipster” originated in the 1940s, and was used to describe jazz afficionados, characterized by their “dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty and relaxed sexual codes.”

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OQrg TIL that in one WWII battle, German soldiers fought alongside the Allies to defend an Austrian castle.
mxe9M TIL that the city of Cloud Cuckoo Land in The LEGO Movie is likely a reference to the 414 BCE Athenian Play The Birds in which a man convinces birds to build a city in the sky
gWxA TIL that minutes before the Halifax Explosion (the largest ever non-nuclear, man-made explosion), a dispatcher named Vince Coleman returned to his station to send a warning telegram, saving 300 lives at the cost of his own.
A7Pg TIL violent crime in the US has actually dropped 15% in the past 10 years.
rN4Be TIL of the grave of Nancy Kerlin Barnett. Buried in the middle of a county road in Indiana, when her grandson heard there were plans of demolishing her grave to build the road, he camped out with a shotgun for weeks to protect it. They built the road around her.