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TIL there is a 13 month calendar & that the Kodak company used it internally for 70 years.

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LkZMv TIL the idea of Catholic Monks/Nuns taking a "vow of silence" never existed. The concept is a misunderstanding of "Monastic Silence" which established rules for time and place when speaking in a monastery. There was never a rule which required perpetual silence.
lWba TIL that Déja Vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like its happened.
5YvWn TIL Thurgood Marshall was almost lynched in Tennessee after winning the acquittals of 23 Black men. He was saved only because his co-counsel decided to follow Marshall and the police and intervene, instead of following orders to leave town.
0dk11 Today I learned that serial killer Amy Archer-Gilligan, who ran a nursing home and murdered some of the residents, and one of her husbands, was the inspiration behind the Cary Grant movie, "Arsenic and Old Lace."
QNQBL TIL that when Jim Morrison returned after his absence during the original recording session of the 11-min song “When The Music’s Over,” his bandmates refused to re-record the song. After being persuaded to layer his vocals on the original version, Morrison recorded his vocals in one single take.