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TIL Cotton Eye Joe is a Swedish song, not American

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epQW5 TIL about Soghomon Tehlirian, who lost his entire family in the Armenian Genocide. In 1922 he shot and killed a former Ottoman Grand Vizier who orchestrated the genocide in broad daylight as part of an organized Armenian revenge plot.
bMp9 TIL that “The shortest St Patrick’s Day parade in the world takes place in Dripsey, Cork. The parade lasts just 100 yards and travels between the village’s two pubs.”
oaZr TIL a farm Carlisle, MA has a Smart Barn that lets the cows get milked by robots whenever they feel like it, and has an automatic back-scratcher as well!
WknEo TIL the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot featured LQBTQ themes, including cross dressing, and as a result was produced without approval from the Hays Code, a popular set of self-censorship guidelines used for decades in Hollywood. The success of the film is one of the reasons behind its abandonment.
MeVmb Is there really a difference between running and jogging? At what point is someone called a runner?