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TIL that Washington Irving the American creator of Sleepy Hollow was integral to popularizing our current understanding of not only Halloween, but also Christmas. His stories of a British manor at Christmas time would go on to inspire Charles Dickens.

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8e7lb TIL Lego has a 'Government & Public Affairs' wing.
OlbY TIL Buzz Aldrin punched a conspiracy theorist, Bart Sibrel, in the face for doubting he was on the Moon
O9j4 TIL That in the game Myth II: Soulblighter, due to a bug in the installer, if the game wasn’t installed into the default directory and instead into a different one, when attempting to uninstall it the uninstaller would delete the computer’s entire hard drive.
0dy9R TIL Mary the Color Scientist is a thought experiment about a scientist in a black & white world. She has extensive knowledge of color but no actual experience of it. The experiment asks whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes outside of the colorless world and experiences seeing in color.
5V16D TIL that United Fruit Company, now Chiquita, played a major role in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’tat after the country redistributed 400,000 acres of uncultivated company land.