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TIL Music is a 'Cultural Universal', which means it is a thing that is common to all known human cultures worldwide. These include: Personal Names, Sexual Jealousy, Proverbs, and Incest Prevention or Avoidance.

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loBar TIL that there was a second Titanic. The Titanic was one of 3 ships called the Olympic Cruisers. The reason why the actual Titanic was called 'unsinkable' was because its sister ship, the Olympic, had a years history of crashing into stuff and refusing to go down.
x649B TIL that this was the Breguet 763 Deux-Ponts, the original double decker aircraft that flew from the late 40's to 50's, used primarily by Air France and French AF (The TRUE grandpa of the MD-12 and A380)
KO7QE TIL Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., the 1958 Walt Disney Christmas special, “Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas" airs on Sweden’s main public-television channel, TV1
0l1y TIL Abraham Lincoln loved cats. He was a renowned Animal lover but cats held a special place. Mary Todd Lincoln was once asked if her husband had any hobbies, she replied “Cats.”
WkpAB TIL: Farmers in the Austrian Alps are resorting to blowing up the carcasses of dead cows with dynamite rather than paying £200 to have them removed by helicopter (it is a legal requirement that all dead animals are removed from farms).