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TIL the Amish celebrate Christmas twice. Once on December 25th, and once one January 6th for "Old Christmas"

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JWym TIL In 1955 Hugh Hefner released a short story about straight men being persecuted in a gay world. After receiving numerous hatemail, he released a statement saying “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”
KOd1G TIL of Lt. Col. Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter during WWII who mounted 6 Bazooka’s to his Piper L-4H scout plane and is credited with destroying several German armored cars and immobolizing at least 14 enemy tanks.
NQ1N TIL lighters were invented before matches
KOMV6 TIL that the BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, who killed 10 people between 1974 and 1991, was finally caught after sending a 1.44MB diskette to the police - which they told him was untraceable - containing metadata from a deleted MS Word file.
N7joe TIL Lima Beans are naturally toxic, have traces of cyanide, and must be fully cooked to illuminate it prior to eating