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TIL "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" was written to spread awareness of disappearing Gothic architecture. For this reason, the book contains unnecessarily elaborate passages describing the settings of various scenes

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R9P6 TIL of the Battle of Long Tan, where 106 Australian troops beat back and defeated a Vietcong force of ~2000
woZMY TIL Nike makes a carpet underlayment pad made from manufacturing scrap that sells exclusively at Home Depot.
KYooa TIL Japanese eels, even the farm-raised ones, are spawn in the waters off the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean
KoK9 TIL the “Do not remove under penalty of law” tags on mattresses were added as a way to regulate the manufacturing when people started stuffing them with corn husks and other waste products
5VXnD TIL about the "Tanganyika-Laughter Epidemic". A student in 1962 in Tanzania started laughing in a school in Kashasha. The laughter quickly spread to hundreds of people,causing schools to close for months. Researchers believe it was caused by stress, social tensions. No official explanation was given