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TIL that The Animals recorded The House of the Rising Sun in one take for £34 after loading their equipment on a stolen British railway wagon and pushing it through the West End of London to get to the studio on their day off

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78OeM TIL that former Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned in large part due to a speech in which he said the reason for underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences was partly due to genetics
696Y7 TIL: Why George Washington's Statue in London Doesn't Touch British Soil
6E67J TIL Jules Verne's wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for over 100 years after his publisher deemed it too unbelievable to publish.
lobWr TIL The South Korean government has decided that kimchi should no longer be referred to as pàocài (“pickled vegetables”) in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, but should have its own name, xīnqí, to distinguish it from other types of pickled vegetables
5VQEP TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the French defense system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 337,000 casualties to retake it.