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a8Qn9 TIL in the 1980s, the British rock band Gene Loves Jezebel was formed by twin brothers Michael & Jay Aston. Around 1997, they split into two bands, each with the same name due to separate US/UK naming rights. The Mountain Goats' song "Abandoned Flesh" summarizes GLJ's confusing history.
0wbbL TIL a rifleman named Jaswant Singh along with two others fought for3 days and cause a casualty of 300 in the Indo-Sino war of 1962.
ZpW8p TIL One California couple uses over 100 billion gallons of water each year.
9d7B TIL that after a falling out with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein–who had written the phrase “A rose is a rose is a rose–supposedly received a telegram from him that read: "A bitch is a bitch is a bitch”
Gd1j TIL referring to the Netherlands as “Holland” is seen as insulting by many Dutch people, as it’s actually just the name one of the provinces.