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

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p8vAO TIL in russia Until 2011, anything containing less than 10% alcohol was considered to be a foodstuff and not alcoholic.
9YPPQ TIL of Major Digby Tatham-Warter, a British major who brought an umbrella into battle, using it to stop an armoured vehicle by poking the driver's eye and saving a chaplain. When a fellow soldier complained about it, he answered "oh my goodness, but what if it rains?"
d8pME TIL Dymphna, patron saint of mental illness, fled from her "mad king" father to Geel, Belgium. She founded an sanctuary for the mentally ill. After her death, the afflicted continued to flock to Geel. Citizens began boarding and caring for them in their homes, a tradition that continues today.
xVP71 TIL Georgia Tann became a millionaire in the 1930s by babynapping poor people's children, falsifying birth records, and selling them to rich families out of state for upwards of $5,000 (around $91,000 today) such as Joan Crawford and wrestler Ric Flair's adoptive parents.
6ELlX TIL of the USS Barb (SS-220), a submarine which sank 17 ships during WWII, Including the Japanese aircraft carrpier Un'yō