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TIL students uncovered a village in Canada that is 10,000 years older than the Pyramids

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myGO TIL that Werner Klemperer, who played the bumbling Col. Klink on Hogan’s Heroes, had a clause in his contract stipulating that Klink would always be portrayed as a fool, and never be victorious over Hogan, or he would quit the show.
9wOp6 TIL that the original lyrics to “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” were much more depressing. The lyrics were changed because Judy Garland refused to sing those lyrics to a child. The lyrics were then changed once more because Frank Sinatra wanted the song to have a more positive tone.
Bry4e TIL George V during the 1926 General Strike criticised the government for calling the strikers "revolutionaries" and said "Try living on their wages before you judge them"
vPw6D TIL that the Hellenic Navy operates an ancient Greek trireme as an officially commissioned military ship
VBGD TIL Ernest Hemingway along with his father, brother, sister, and granddaughter all committed suicide.