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TIL that pumpkins mostly grow during the night
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TIL the artist Sia released an album compiled of rejected songs originally ghostwritten for A-List artists
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TIL Port-au-Prince Marriott Hotel opened in 2015 as a response to help Haiti rebuild its tourism industry after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It employs 200 staff, with many who were recruited from Haiti’s poorest areas and features over 200 original artworks
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TIL the tradition for standing during the hallelujah chorus of Handel’s Messiah started because King George II stood during it at the first performance in England, and then everyone else had to stand up, and no one knows why George stood up.
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TIL A century before Martin Luther, Jan Hus criticized the Catholic Church for selling of indulgences and church positions. Hus was invited to the Council of Constance, arrested, charged with heresy, and burned at the stake on 6 July 1415.
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TIL that $2.5 billion dollars of the nearly $9.5 billion dollars of Haiti aid relief money went toward actual aid relief