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TIL that sideburns are named after American Civil War General, General Burnside.

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KOb9R TIL that the city of Topeka, Kansas was renamed to Topikachu for a day in both 1998 and 2018 to celebrate the release of new Pokémon games.
PREG TIL a furniture store owner was honored for giving an undercover cop a job working alongside a murder suspect for 5 months. The officer befriended the suspect and got him to confess to killing his wife. The killer was tried and convicted.
d878d TIL about the Battle of Camaron, where 64 French Foreign Legionnaires resisted to 3,000 mexican soldiers for a whole day long. The 3 last legion survivors, heavily wounded, refused to continue the fight at their own terms.
loPm5 TIL that Kendrick Lamar's DAMN is the first non classical/jazz musical work to win the Pulitzer Music Prize. The awards began in 1943.
wpj8 TIL parents at a school in Idaho called police on a book giveaway event for an award-winning young adult novel banned from the school curriculum because it was “anti-christian”