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TIL that Kublai Khan’s mother was Christian - which featured heavily in his open mindedness to other cultures and religions

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vPRrr TIL that when a poisonous gas leak was found at 11:45pm immediately before the Bhopal disaster in 1984 that killed thousands, a decision was made to do something about it after the 12:15am tea break.
JYpVm TIL that in order to stay in "sync" with the earth's orbit around the sun, we have to skip having a leap year every 100 years, and that every 400 years we have to skip skipping the leap year.
xb15 TIL an extremely effective Lyme disease vaccine was discontinued because an anti-vaccination lobby group destroyed it’s marketability. 121 people out of the 1.4 million vaccinated claimed it gave them arthritis.
v1LER TIL since 2011 in Maricopa county Arizona restaurants can avoid posting failed inspection grades from the health department by opting out of the heating system at inspection time
KYQ1B TIL: Oregon had a "whites only" clause in its original state Constitution.