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TIL in the 90's hit song Return To Innocence, the ethnic chant wasn't Native American, but rather it was from the Amis people of Taiwan. Also, the sample was used without permission or credit.

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8eEpV TIL George Picquart, an anti-semitic French army officer, helped to convict fellow officer Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, of treason. Subsequently promoted to lead the secret intelligence service, he then discovered and exposed the conspiracy that had framed Dreyfus, eventually toppling the government.
kKYe TIL menstrual stem cells (found in period blood) could be used to create more tissue types than other adult stem cells, including bone, blood vessel, fat, brain, lung, liver, pancreas, & heart. They grow more readily & rapidly than other types of adult stem cells from bone marrow & umbilical cords.
A4R4 TIL that of the of the 139 members elected to the 1934 USSR Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 17th Congress, Stalin had 98 executed. Of 1,996 party members present, 1,108 were arrested, and about two thirds of those executed. Thus it was given the name “The Congress of the Condemned”.
BOwx TIL when George Washington died in 1799, Napoleon ordered 10 days of nationwide mourning in France.
e01x4 TIL Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, was orphaned at 12 and named her son after her guardian, George Eskridge. Her husband, Augustine Washington, died when their son George was 11, and she never remarried. She died of breast cancer in 1789, after George became the president.