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TIL the international reactions and events around the US invasion of Grenada were strikingly similar to the Russian invasion of Crimea.

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GAkk1 TIL: The "Duck Walk Killer". In 2018, two people were killed in the same neighborhood in Chicago on different dates. It was concluded the same gun was used and footage noticed that the killer had a distinctive toes pointed out walk which led the media to name them the Duck Walk Killer.
epQrE TIL that the first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m., because that’s when its inventor had to wake up for work.
Wwvd TIL that the population of Ireland still hasn’t returned to where it was before the Potato Famine
1gAD TIL that Kim Jong-il supposedly shot a 38 under par in golf his first time trying the sport. A feat that required no less than 5 hole in ones. The accomplishment is 25 shots better than the world record. Having been satisfied with his preformance, he promptly retired from the sport forever.
xV0v5 TIL that in the early days of rock and roll, country music was often non-derisively referred to as "hillbilly" music. After country artists incorporated rock techniques into their own style, they created a new combination of rock and hillbilly that came to be called Rockabilly.