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TIL the Battle of San Jacinto, the defining moment in the Texas Revolution that led to the Mexican surrender, lasted just 18 minutes

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wLDVP TIL the origins of the US National Anthem (music) was in the UK !
Z8eR TIL the lowest grossing film in history made $30, $10 of this was refunded. It is called Zyzzyx Road and it has finally (6 years later) been released as a DVD.
9wOeM TIL the probable author of the Social Darwinist tract "Might Is Right" was a New Zealander who ended his days selling ice cream and candy in Illinois
JZlV TIL that in 2009, a researcher at the University of Montreal launched a study into how pornography affects 20-30-year-old men but had to stop research because he could not find a single person who had never watched a sexually explicit video
VMRQ0 TIL: the most celebrated 'toilet attendant' is Victoria Hughes, who for three decades served in a female public toilets in Bristol. Unexpected national fame came her way at the age of 80 in 1977 when she published her memoirs, called Ladies Mile. She revealed to being a confidante of prostitutes.