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TIL that the Polish opera "Halka" was staged in Cazale, Haiti, to highlight the village's connection with Poland: Many of its inhabitants are descendents of the Polish legionnaires sent by Napoleon to put down the Haitian Revolution.

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vPyoR TIL Pong was the first game created by Atari and was meant to be a warm up exercise for a new employee
mxEkx TIL of Steve Flaig who was adopted as a child. At age 18 he decided to look for his birth mother. Four years later he succeeded and discovered that they were colleagues working in the same store
nel1G TIL: A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane was headed to Switzerland, but had to be intercepted by French/Italian fighter jets because the Swiss Air force doesn't work on nights and weekends.
oRVvR TIL Dancing mania was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time until they broke their ribs and subsequently died.