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TIL that in 1996 the NYT had the name of the winner in the elections as a clue and it worked regardless of the candidate.

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EgpEP TIL that the ‘Age of Piracy’ only lasted around 80 years. It started in 1648 after the Treaty of Westphalia pushed European powers to hire privateers, and declined between 1714 and 1723 when the War of Spanish succession ended, Nassau was retaken, and every famous pirate had been killed or captured.
7rZ9b TIL the Notre Dame Cathedral was left to ruin until it was restored in the 19th century, and the restoration was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's reimagining of what a Middle-Age Cathedral may have looked like.
9rR7 TIL that during the German Invasion of Poland, 720 Poles defended their position against over 40.000 attacking Germans, stopping their advance for three days
OoOZ6 TIL Meg and Jack White of the White stripes publicly portrayed themselves as siblings despite the fact that they weren't related and had married in 1996 prior to the band's formation.
69j8 TIL that The Learning Channel (TLC) was founded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA; it was distributed at no cost by NASA satellite.