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TIL that Cher has been recording since the sixties and Believe (1998) is her 22nd album

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a8pno TIL the Alabama Hills are in California, not Alabama. Confederate sympathizers named the range after the CSS Alabama, a Confederate warship deployed during the Civil War. Kearsarge, another area of the Sierra, is named for the ship that sunk the Alabama.
BXae TIL that the death toll of the Rwandan Genocide accounted as much as 20% of the country’s total population
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5Y0KB TIL of a sociological theory that posits most Americans are believers of a "civil religion" - which enshrines sacred symbols such as the flag, claims America's prosperity is due to divine providence, and idolizes soldiers and veterans as martyrs for a higher American purpose