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TIL that The Sound of Music is a true story

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BAPe TIL Davy Crockett, as a Congressman in the the U.S. House of Representatives, opposed President Andrew Jackson’s 1830 Indian Removal Act and was the only member of the Tennessee delegation to vote against it. Six years later he died defending the Alamo.
9Gdp TIL snow is actually considered a mineral, along with naturally occurring ice. Water, however, is not a mineral.
0wYoM TIL there are sea slugs that incorporates chloroplasts into their bodies, making them the only multicellular animals that can photosynthesize.
m9Ly TIL a suburb of Sydney, Australia installed loudspeakers at a “trouble spot” in a car park to drive away the hooligans by playing Barry Manilow songs.
oRBrA TIL that while Queen Elizabeth II is titular head of the Commonwealth, and her designated successor is her son Charles, Prince of Wales, the title is not strictly speaking a hereditary one.