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TIL that Stonewall Jackson was also the name of the Major General of 84th Division during WW2

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6EGXw TIL when South Park parodied Family Guy in the 2010 two-part episode ‘Cartoon Wars’, The Simpsons writing staff sent them flowers
6ErlQ TIL about Toni Stone, the first woman to ever play professional baseball as a regular on a big-league team.
8gMa TIL the word “mesmerize” comes from 18th century German physician Franz Mesmer, who used the sounds from Benjamin Franklin’s glass armonica to induce “animal magnetism” in patients. “Animal magnetism” would later be renamed “hypnosis” by Scottish surgeon James Braid in 1841.
b9e5Q TIL during the Civil War there was a Union version of the song Dixie that started, "Away down South in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators."
v1pb8 TIL Over 140 Polish pilots flew in the British Air Force during the Battle of Britain, making them the largest non-British nationality in the force. 2nd was New Zealand, and 3rd was Canada. Nearly a quarter of the pilots that fought for the RAF and RN in the Battle of Britain were not British.