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TIL that in 1946, armed citizens in a Tennessee county fought a gun battle with corrupt local authorities to ensure a fair election AND they made a movie about it

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R555w TIL Cher's 1998 hit "Believe" is the first song to use Auto-Tune. The singer believed her career was hitting "rock bottom," and after hearing a different song with a wobble effect created by a vocoder (a voice effect pedal tool), decided she wanted to create a similar song.
ANGla TIL that Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to space walk, became in June 2020 the only person to have visited both space and the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
m1JLE TIL that the term "OK" originated during the 1830s as a humorous abbreviation of "oll korrect," which was a misspelling of "all correct.
P1PDL TIL When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, a reward was set for whoever first sighted land. Although one of his crewmen was first to report, Columbus falsely claimed he'd spotted land the previous night,thereby securing the reward for himself
4kgeR TIL after fathers drown at sea, people in the fishing village Skinningrove, England, have a ritual to take the sons out to ensure they don’t get fearful of it.