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TIL Rowan Atkinson's role in Love Actually was originally meant to be an Angel, which explains his knowingly helpful appearances.

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p8XwN TIL: Advent doesn't start on 1st December. It starts on the 4th Sunday before Christmas so varies by up to a week. The 1st December 'tradition' was invented by companies making advent calendars so the same units/designs can be sold every year.
5VrAQ TIL that Rhode Island only ratified the Constitution after the newly-formed U.S. Senate passed a bill that would have placed a trade embargo on it.
GAJQQ TIL of Quintus Quincy Quigley, the founder of Paducah, Kentucky
LkeK9 TIL NASA's three spacecraft losses occurred within a calendar week of one another: Apollo 1 on 1/27, Challenger on 1/28, and Columbia on 2/1
BrDOL TIL that in May 1987, 300,000 people, in celebrating the Golden Gate Bridge bridge's 50th anniversary walked across the span - flattening the normally arched roadbed, and causing some to become sick.