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TIL that “Stars and Stripes Forever” is an emergency alert at the circus. When it is played by the band it usually means there is a fire and that the performers and circus hands should go to their emergency stations and start evacuating people

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ADwdg Today I learned that 15th April is celebrated as "World Art Day" as it is the birthday of the famous sculptor, inventor and painter, Leonardo Da Vinci.
l7NEB TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan. A retaliatory against North Korea for the murder of 2 UN command officers. With 813 armed infantry, 27 helicopters, B52 stratofortress, fighter planes, a carrier strike group, and a chainsaw. US forces successfully cut down a poplar tree and the mission was a success.
rRQx0 TIL Sean Connery's 2000 movie "Finding Forrester" inspired the creation of YTMND, after its creator saw a trailer for the movie, in which Sean Connery says the line "You're the man now, dog!"
grAQb TIL that the song Old Shep (written by Red Foley and made famous by Elvis), is based on dog Foley owned as a child, that, in reality, was poisoned by a neighbor.
4jdX TIL that one of the last samurais was a female, Nakano Takeko, who asked her sister to cut off her head when she was shot, so the enemies could not take it as trophy.