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TIL the Tet Offensive was probably inspired by the Three Pronged Attacks during the Lam Son Uprising. Le Loi and his generals successfully fought and won three major battles against the Ming which ended the Ming occupation of Vietnam in one swoop.

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GY7AQ TIL the song "Edelweiss" in "The Sound of Music" was written for the musical, but sounded so much like a classic folk song that after the first performances, native Austrians said they were delighted to "hear that old folk tune again"
ejmD TIL the Prime Minister of Hungary during WW2 killed himself rather than be complicit when his country was forced into the Axis
epAAE TIL playing Tetris following a traumatic event prevents the brain from having flashbacks and creating fearful memories
6nbw TIL a high-school student sued his school district after they suspended him for three days for giving an innuendo-laden speech at a school assembly. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
b6kmE TIL that in Yukon, Canada, there is a "desert" between mountains and forests. Despite the name, scientifically is not a desert in the traditional sense, are dunes created by glaciers 24,000 years ago, but locals nickname the place as "the world smallest desert".