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TIL that the "Happy Birthday" song was originally titled "Good Morning to All" and was intended to be a simple classroom greeting.

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xlp7 TIL that the band “Eagles” sued a nonprofit eagle preservation organization for the use of the word “Eagles”.
w1gM TIL that men who perform poorly at video games are more likely to make sexist comments about female gamers than successful male gamers.
R5Rv9 TIL that the column of Borso d’Este in Farrara Italy is constructed of Jewish tombstones. They discovered the tombstones when they were removed during a restoration project in 1960. The tombstones were then put back into the column instead of being replaced by more appropriate materials.
rNA54 TIL that the United States Army, after the end of the American Revolution, was originally renamed the Legion of the United States.
dDLYE TIL that in 1982, an artist and her assistants grew, cared for, and harvested an entire wheatfield in the middle of New York City on top of the landfill created by the construction of The World Trade Center, a piece of land worth 4.5 billion dollars at the time.