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5VKPp TIL that Washington Irving the American creator of Sleepy Hollow was integral to popularizing our current understanding of not only Halloween, but also Christmas. His stories of a British manor at Christmas time would go on to inspire Charles Dickens.
VBdNB TIL about Gouverneur Morris. He was a Founding Father who, among many other great achievements, wrote the entire Preamble to the Constitution — including the phrase “We the People of the United States” — and drafted the final version of the Constitution.
R5l0j TIL that Pan Am were booking flights to the moon, between 1969 & 1971, they processed around 93,000 reservation tickets for free. They stopped taking reservations because of the admit costs but maintained well into the 1980's that the tickets would be honoured, if and when flights were possible.