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TIL in the aftermath of The Falklands War, Argentina banned all music in the English language

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9ooG TIL, Irene Triplett is still collecting her father’s military Civil War pension at $73.13 each month.
lomRA TIL: in 1963 Liberace suffered kidney failure from exposure to dry cleaning fluids used to clean his many elaborate costumes
P10OJ TIL Tom Waits voiced a dog food commercial in 1981
reow TIL a restaurant in Edinburgh held a charity hot curry eating contest that resulted in the first 10 contestants writhing in agony, panting, and vomiting, with one contestant being hospitalized twice. The 2nd group of contestants declined to participate.
epnNn TIL a rugby player ran a 90km marathon in his rugby boots and later organized a Test match in a WWII POW camp