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TIL that Calixa Lavallée, the Canadian musician who composed the music for 'O Canada', spent two years as a band musician in the Union Army during the American Civil War

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b9Mr4 TIL of Martin Guerre, a French peasant in the 16th century, who was at the center of a famous case of imposture. Several years after he had left, a man claiming to be him appeared. He lived with his wife and son for three years, until he was suspected and tried. Guerre appeared during the trial.
dJE TIL The Star Wars kid is now a law student,and the president of nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving his hometowns heritage and culture.
56AD TIL of Dunbarton Castle, the most ancient continuously fortified place in the British Isles, where people lived since at least the Iron Age and throughout history has been; besieged by vikings, used as a jail, a military base, housing for royalty, and is built on a volcanic plug.
MekVA TIL that the woman who discovered pulsars in the 1970s did not receive credit, and the Nobel prize went to her supervisor instead, a man who had originally dismissed her work.
8aedP TIL of Tama (たま, April 29, 1999 – June 22, 2015), a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.