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TIL during the Civil War there was a Union version of the song Dixie that started, "Away down South in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators."

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pMw8 TIL in 1959 Apartheid South Africa, the words “European” and “Non-European” were replaced by “Whites” and “Non-Whites” at Johannesburg Airport, because Americans tended to use the Non-European doors in order to distinguish themselves from actual Europeans.
9Y9jX TIL of Georg Gaertner, a German prisoner of war who escaped from a POW camp in the U.S. in 1945. He started an entirely new life under a new identity, and did not reveal his past, even to his wife, for 40 years
ZQJQ TIL “the phobias that people with panic disorder develop do not come from fears of actual objects or events, but rather from fear of having another attack.”
1ndP TIL New Zealand’s native Māori make up only 15% of the population, but over 50% of the imprisoned population
N0Pb TIL that the latest Dragonball Z movie (Battle of Gods) was 1 of the 4 selected movies in 2012 that received funding from the Japanese government