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TIL The Village People was formed when French songwriter/producer Jacques Morali put an ad in a local trade magazine that read, "Macho Types Wanted: Must Dance And Have A Moustache."

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nW5VP TIL The Bar Tab of a 1787 Farewell Party for George Washington Indicates That the Founding Fathers Drank 54 Bottles of Madeira, 60 of Claret, 8 of Whiskey, 22 of Porter, 8 of Cider, 12 of Beer--But There Were Only 55 Attendees
p8YjQ TIL that 14% of the US adult population could not read in 2013
57BQ TIL During the Falklands war, while the HMS Sheffield was sinking it’s crew burst into song, singing Monty Python’s “Always look on the bright side of life”
e0MQL TIL there have been at least 5 different Battles of Thermopylae aside from the one famously fought between the Greeks and Persians (popularized by "300") in 480 BC. The most recent of these battles was between the ANZACs and the Wermacht in 1941.
XrG8 TIL in the 1950s, a married duo had a live BBC radio program where the husband would seemingly transmit telepathic messages from the studio to his wife who was in a different location each episode (underwater, in a plane, etc) and would then repeat it back. Even now, it is unknown how this was done.