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TIL Matt Groening’s Mother’s maiden name was Wiggum.

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YpjYG TIL in 2003 voters in Georgia approved the adoption the Confederate flag as the Flag of Georgia with the only change being the addition of a yellow state seal
aO9b TIL that the phrase “Die Hard” was coined in 1811 by an English officer during a battle in the Napoleonic Wars. He was wounded, but refused to leave the field, telling his outnumbered regiment to “die hard” against the French troops.
VBrjp TIL that until the Civil War, American currency was made only the form of silver or gold coins. Though the colonial Continental Congress briefly issued paper currency, it wasn't until 1862 that Congress authorized the use of paper currency as legal tender for any debts
xVoY1 TIL that racial segregation in the American South didn't begin right after the Civil War; it was imposed in the 1890s when rich whites in the South feared the Populist movement bringing poor whites and blacks together. Segregation literally stopped the two sides from legally gathering together.
j6BQE TIL Ban'ei Racing is a form of Japanese horse racing in which draft horses pull heavy sleds up sand ramps, urged-on by jockeys balancing on the sleds.