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TIL "Miss America" is actually abbreviated. Originally it was, "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America," and the winner was judged solely on their bathing suit.

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xV8MD TIL Agnes Waterhouse was the first woman executed for witchcraft in England (1566). She was accused of turning her talking cat into a toad, which then turned into a dog with horns and threatened her neighbor with a knife. She denied it, but was found guilty and hung.
xVxek TIL there is a "Christmas Tree" (actually a large bush) located in the median of I-17 in Arizona, which has been decorated every year for over 30 years by an unknown group of persons
v1mLj TIL about female hyenas
oBBJR TIL The tetragrammaton is the Biblical name of the God of Israel.
97rD TIL that the Vikings essentially invented rap battling during the fifth century.