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TIL that Green Bay, Wisconsin’s official seal has the Packers logo

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pYxWb TIL that In 1816, after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, Earth experienced the “Year Without a Summer.” Global temperatures dropped, leading to food shortages, crop failures, and extreme weather events
RKGl TIL during pre-Civil War America, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters. About 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves—as opposed to less than 4.8 percent of southern whites, and dramatically more than the 1.4 percent of all white Americans who owned slaves.
w1p6 TIL film Critic Roger Ebert was quoted saying, “I would rather attend a dusk-to-dawn Chris Farley film festival than sit through any 5 minutes of (Pauly Shore in) Jury Duty.”
p804N TIL that The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis.
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