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TIL Jewish Americans have made a tradition of eating Chinese food during the holiday season since the early 1900s

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4XX0w TIL During the Little Ice Age, the Thames River would freeze over so severely during the winter months, Londoners would come together and have celebratory fairs (open markets) on the ice, the first recorded in 1608.
DQAMD TIL that the visual effects of the film, The Fountain, cost only a total of $140,000 on a budget of $35 million due to macro photographer Peter Parks’ creative solutions and a bare minimum of CGI.
PV6g TIL: There is a theory that the Dursleys in Harry Potter were such bad people because they were living with a horcrux (harry) for so long, similar to how other ones affected Ron and Ginny Weasley
e0lk TIL Google search results can be limited to a specific reading level. Really useful for finding grade school materials or scientific journals.
GY6yN TIL that about one to two percent of United States Armed Forces members are estimated to belong to criminal gangs in the United States, which is 50 to 100 times the rate or the general population