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TIL that "poetry" is named after the writer Edgar Allen Poe.
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TIL of Elmer McCurdy; a funhouse prop that turned out to be a real corpse
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TIL of Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat who during WW2 warned Danish Jews of their impending deportation and organised their rescue to Sweden, resulting in 95% of Jewish Danes fleeing successfully.
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TIL There is a key change in every verse of “I Walk the Line” and you can hear Johnny Cash hum before each verse to get his pitch (cannot unhear)
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TIL In 1885, Taiwan was established as a province of China. Though occupied by Japan during the Second World War, it came back to China after Japan was defeated. Ma Ying-jeou, the former leader of Taiwan, tried hard to deepen the connections with the mainland
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TIl that in Welsh folk legend, corgis were a gift from the woodland fairies, and that the breed's markings were left on its coat by fairy harnesses and saddles.