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BggAb Today I learned about “Yu-Mex”music. A genre of music popular during the 1950s and 1960s in Yugoslavia which incorporated elements of traditional Mexican music. Yugoslavian musicians were known to don sombreros in their performances.
v1JG8 TIL not everyone is born with the innate ability to internally plug their nose by “flexing” their soft palete. However it appears as though it can (easily?) be learned.
0dpgA TIL the Army of the United States is not the same as the US Army. The Army of the US is one of four components, also including the Regular Army, the Army Reserve and the National Guard. If you're drafted you go into the Army of the US, but it's been dormant since 1973.
ejoD TIL at the age of 17 Bill Hicks’ parents took him to a psychoanalyst, who, at the end of the session, told him “it’s them, not you”.
KYbKB TIL Ocracoke has a dialect similar to Elizabethan English. Sadly it’s almost extinct.