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Today I learned the confetti in Times Square is all thrown by hand

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kOr91 TIL that modern football is descended from "medieval football" in which opposing teams would attempt to drag an inflated pig's bladder to markers at each end of a town by any means necessary "as long as it did not lead to manslaughter or murder."
ADGon TIL that as a result of the investigation into serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Russian police solved more than more than 1000 unrelated crimes, including 95 murders, 140 aggravated assaults, and 245 molestations.
LkLgQ TIL a fascist Italy in 1935 ended slavery in Ethiopia. Mind = blown.
EW4W TIL that Jeffrey Lee turned down $5 billion for his piece of land in Australia. The 1,228 hectar contain about 14,000 tonnes of Uranium. He is the last member of the aboriginal Djok clan and believes that there will be a catastrophe if you disturb the spirits below the earth.
erjJ TIL that Nobel Prize laureate William Shockley, who invented a transistor, also proposed that individuals with IQs below 100 be paid to undergo voluntary sterilization