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TIL that Martin Luther, the great German Reformation leader, in 1543, wrote a 65,000 word treatise called “On The Jews And Their Lies” in which he argued that jews should be shown no mercy or kindness, and that “these poisonous worms” should be expelled for all time.

epWXn TIL according to Ojibwe folklore, Red Lake in Minnesota was formed after Paul Bunyan was slapped by a native hero in the face with a fish so hard that he fell butt-first to the ground and left an imprint
R78l9 TIL that many PBS stations across the US switched to all children's programming after the September 11th attacks in order to "provide children a safe harbor from continuous news coverage of the attacks."
jNWMQ TIL the reason why an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel mid flight in '83, NASA lost its Mars orbiter in '99, and a roller coaster car derailed on Space Mountain in '03 were due to confusion in working with both imperial and metric systems.
a8OXN TIL: In 2022, Airbus announced they were going to create a production site in space. They teamed up with the European Space Agency to bring several metal 3d printers into space. The lack of weight and size constraints will allow satellites to be built in space using moondust.
pZL8 TIL that the bar tab of a 1787 farewell party for George Washington is still intact. “According to the bill… [The Founding Fathers] drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, 8 of whiskey, 22 of porter, 8 of hard cider, 12 of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch”. The party had 55 attendees.