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TIL Australia bans instagram users from seeing how many likes they get

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1ambP TIL the United Daughters of the Confederacy was responsible for the construction of many Confederate memorials, with their mission being to "tell of the glorious fight against the greatest odds a nation ever faced, that their hallowed memory should never die."
5YMDQ TIL An instrumental version of the song "Sukiyaki", a story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears will not fall, was played by NASA over the radio for the Gemini VII astronauts as mood music, thereby becoming one of the first pieces of music sent to humans in space
p8Z6N TIL Aztecs saw giving birth as a battle, and women who died during childbirth were believed to go to the same heaven as fallen warriors.
d8x88 TIL Montreal's mayor declared in '76 that "the Olympics can no more have a financial deficit than a man can have a baby." The city actually took 30 years to then pay off the debt.
pYJ5N TIL that in The Shawshank Redemption, when Morgan Freeman’s character is asked “why do they call you Red?” and he responds with “maybe it’s because I’m Irish”.