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TIL that Something by the Beatles and Layla by Eric Clapton are written about the same woman, Pattie Boyd

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b98r7 TIL The French Marshall Michel Ney was a respected Marshall who served Napoleon. After Napoleon's second exile, he was charged with treason and sentenced to death by firing squad. Due to his status, he was allowed to face the soldiers unblindfolded and was permitted to give the final order to fire.
jNokv TIL about Coxey's Army. It was the first popular protest march on Washington. Composed of unemployed workers from the United States, the protesters petitioned for government jobs in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time.
8ew6L TIL that before she was an actress, Sissy Spacek was a singer, who, recording under the name "Rainbo," released a novelty song called "John, You Went Too Far This Time," which was a reaction to John Lennon posing naked with Yoko Ono on the cover of their "Two Virgins" album
vEDK TIL that witchcraft is so accepted in Romania that in 2011 the government tried to tax witches to help pull the country out of recession.
dDO7 TIL Bill Murray’s brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, voice acts Captain K'nuckles from misadventures of Flapjack and The Flying Dutchman from spongebob.