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TIL that Cher’s “Believe” was the first song to use Auto-Tune, and that it was initially known as the “Cher Effect”

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6kAX TIL women couldn’t wear pants on the Senate floor until 1993
NYNM TIL that of all the countries that celebrate an independence day: 57 are independent of the UK; 27 France; 22 Russia; and 21 Spain.
6nWm TIL that in the Great Depression in the 1930’s, Canada had zero bank failures compared to over 9,000 failed banks in the USA.
6Oa7 TIL of Lafayette, a Frenchman from the revolutionary war who later toasted “to the perpetual union of the united states. it has always served us in times of storm. one day it will save the world”. American troops sent to France in world war 1 visited the grave and said “Lafayette, we are here”
WkO5Y TIL about the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was signed in 1928 and made war illegal, even though the pact had no mechanisms for enforcement