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TIL That 70’s Show takes place between the year 1976 and 1979, but Christmas happens 5 times in the series.

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lo0g7 TIL Candy Cigarettes were introduced in late 19th century. They were wrapped in paper and packaged to resemble cigarettes. Some contained powdered sugar, allowing users to blow and produce clouds of sugar, imitating smoke. Candy cigarettes are currently banned in many countries including the UK.
P1M8V TIL North Korea set up a large middle school in Pyongyang for ethnic Chinese students in 1955. When news of the Chinese Cultural Revolution reached students in 1966, they openly chanted Mao songs and teachings, Communist slogans, attacked the principal's office, resulting in closure of the school
D1wxP TIL more than 5,000 babies across the United States were abducted by a supposedly charitable organization between 1924 and 1950. The group targeted poor Southern families and developed a black market for white babies.
xVnJg TIL Physicist Freeman Dyson, who died in late February, was the first to propose advanced aliens would likely build "Dyson Spheres" around their home stars, which are giant shells that capture most of a star's energy to help power an entire interplanetary civilization.
4kNLX TIL, Colonel Neel Kearby, an American fighter pilot during WW2 who was credited in destroying 22 enemy aircraft and received the Medal of Honor, was shot down and killed on March 5, 1944. All of his three children died in aircraft accidents in the US in the 1970s.