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TIL George Harrison released a critically panned electronic album years before The Beatles broke up

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5YKaQ TIL Female Golden Eagles , are used by Mongolian shepherds to defend against wolves.
n7gB TIL that George R.R. Martin writes his novels using WordStar 4, a DOS program from 1987.
Y7v9G TIL: SCOTUS decision in 1922 denied Japanese-American Takao Ozawa citizenship ruling that only white "Caucasians" were eligible. The next year, a Sikh man named Bhagat Singh Thind sued arguing that he should be eligible because he is from the Caucasus. He was also denied.
epadk TIL that Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, the life story of a 12th century knight named William Marshal, is the only known written biography of a nonroyal to survive the Middle Ages.
ZnZa TIL the state of Kuwait is banned from the Olympics due to government legislation that permits the state to interfere in elections of sporting organizations. As a result, Kuwaiti athletes compete as independent athletes under the Olympic Flag instead of their own flag.