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TIL that the Pomp and Circumstance march was named after a line in Shakespeare's Othello and was not originally intended as a graduation march.

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RKJl TIL when US imposed sanctions against Russia’s space program the Russian Deputy Prime Minister tweeted “After reviewing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest that the United States deliver their astronauts to the ISS using a trampoline”
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ADeZo TIL historians have partnered with a retirement home to find those still able to read the civil-war era cursive script of the Seward family.
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