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W704B TIL the origin of the dance routine from Whigfield’s “Saturday Night” are unknown. Once she performed the song and to her bemusement people started doing it. It was not in her music video and she never knew about it.
LQevm TIL that the Bald Eagle is not officially the national bird despite representing the United States for over 248 years
d8eKE TIL In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves
Eg9yV TIL the first programmable digital computer was COLOSSUS, built for code breaking during WW2. Due to secrecy, it wasn’t revealed for decades
wope8 TIL the "red telephone" for the Moscow-Washington hotline was never a real red phone. Initially a Teletype link, it switched to fax in 1986, and since 2008, it's a secure computer link for email communication. The connection has always been Kremlin-Pentagon and not to the White House.