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TIL that January 14 was traditionally the day of "the Feast of the Ass", an event dedicated to celebrating all the donkeys in the Bible

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DQ44Y TIL the last Civil War widow died in 2020.
9Yg8Q TIL about Goran Kropp. He rode a bicycle 6,000 miles from Stockholm to the base of Mount Everest in 1996 with his mountain equipment, successfully climbed it solo and without bottled oxygen, and then cycled back home.
mxWJY TIL that the world's oldest roller coaster "Leap The Dips" built in 1902 is the only remaining side-friction roller coaster in North America
0wbBp TIL Most of the Cambodians did not even know that Pol Pot was the head of Khmer Rouge until his communist friends from China “insisted” him to show his face to the world as the leader of Cambodia. Even his family members who were working in the fields did not know he was running the country.
newgr TIL a historic Houston restaurant paid their employees salaries for 18 months while they were closed and rebuilding after a catastrophic fire.