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TIL After Polio started spreading, swimming pools and movie theaters were closed every summer for forty years.

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W7XNY TIL there are 20+ kinds of ice
eLXE TIL that anyone can earn the official title of ‘Lord’, 'Lady’ or 'Laird’ by buying a plot of Scottish land. This title can be used on official documents like driving licenses and credit cards
Egdoo TIL that in 1890 an anticlerical journalist (Leo Taxil) pulled off a 12-year prank to humiliate the Vatican involving: inventing a cult of satanic Freemasons, paying his typist to play the part of a Luciferian Templar Mistress, revealing it all to have been a hoax once the Vatican had endorsed it.
1anDP TIL Lentils have been a source of sustenance for humans since prehistoric times. They are the oldest pulse crop known to man and one of the earliest domesticated crops. Depending on location, lentils were either considered a poor man's food or a delicacy for the upper class
R5kY6 TIL That the late character actor Charles Durning, who was a WWII veteran, was not only the sole survivor of a unit during the Normandy invasion but was one of only three men to escape the infamous Malmedy Massacre during the Battle of the Bulge.