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TIL that possibly the most iconic of French foods, the Croissant, is actually Austrian.

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rRMV1 TIL "Peggy Sue," released in 1957, first carried the moniker of Buddy Holly’s niece, Cindy Lou Kaiter. But Jerry Allison, The Crickets’s drummer who co-wrote the song, argued it be named after his girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.
Eg1eW TIL in the 1980s South Africa attempted to block whites from viewing TV based in a nominally independent black homeland.
plxG TIL that in 2010, a woman named Lori Ruff committed suicide. Her husband’s family found a box among her possessions that contained name change documents and the birth certificate of a long-dead two-year-old girl. The true identity of Lori Ruff still has not been discovered.
VbRB TIL that research has found that everyone is able to sing well - it is a learned skill that gets better with practice and worse with disuse.
QQQX TIL that cats have a non-fatal terminal velocity and as a result have survived falls from airplanes thousands of feet in the air.