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TIL people who speak English with an accent, but sing without one, are simply singing in a way that comes naturally, which also just so happens to be the core of what many people consider an “American” accent.

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J1QP4 TIl The Lodge–Philbin Act was a U.S. federal law, passed in 1950, which allowed for the recruiting of foreign nationals into a military force fighting under the command of the U.S. Armed Forces. If they successfully served five years with an honorable discharge, they were guaranteed U.S. citizenship
5YNek TIL that the Hapsburg's are (1) still around and (2) were one of Hitler's biggest internal enemies (in the German speaking world) in WW2
kyNE TIL of Bill Morgan, a man who won a car in the lottery after being deemed clinically dead for over 14 minutes and in a coma for 12 days. Then, when a local news show asked to film a reenactment, he won $250,000 while the cameras rolled.
9w0b6 TIL that Leonard Nimoy refused to participate in Star Trek: The Animated Series unless George Takei and Nichelle Nichols were included, emphasizing their roles as symbols of ethnic diversity in the 23rd century.
16M9V TIL of the submarine USS Tang. It was hit when it's own torpedo boomeranged. 89 crew with 29 trapped. 13 made it out through a hatch but only 9 made to the surface where they were picked up by the Japanese and taken to a POW camp. They survived the war.