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TIL about the Singing Revolution which was a series of events between 1987 and 1991 in the Baltic States which incorporated the singing of patriotic songs as a method of protest against the Soviet Union. These events would ultimately result in the Baltic State gaining their independence.

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4kRVJ TIL tunicates are the only animals capable of producing cellulose. They can do this thanks to a gene they got from a bacterium.
1LyP TIL that on April 6th, 1926 a boy named Phillip McClean was killed when he and his brother came across a Cassowary bird on their property. They tried to kill it, but it kicked Philip in the neck, cutting him, and he bled to death. McClean is the only person to be killed by a Cassowary.
YyGP TIL that Samuel Caldwell was the first person in America to be arrested for selling marijuana. Arrested in 1937 for selling two joints, he was sentenced to a $1000 fine and four years of hard labor. This happened in one of the only places in America where pot is legal today, Denver Colorado.
e0KQL TIL Steve McQueen broke Charles Manson’s nose in a fight and narrowly avoided being murdered by the Manson family. He was set to attend the dinner in which Sharon Tate was killed , but cancelled at the last minute so he could go hook up with his mistress.
YOBr TIL the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called “The Lone Gunmen”, which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war