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TIL that jingle bells was originally a thanksgiving song, not a Christmas song

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mvgx TIL that today, on 1999 July 28th, Tommy Chong was the very first person in America to receive a medical marijuana card, in the state of California.
glrW TIL On September 11, 1987, Dan Rather, upset at the evening news being delayed by a U.S. Open tennis match, walked off the set and when the match was over CBS was left with nothing but dead air for six minutes
loJrB TIL that Marie Curie invented a mobile x-ray machine for usage on the front line during WWI and taught 150 women to use them, she also believed her radiation exposure durinf this time cause her terminal illness not radium.
Z174 TIL Robot is Czech for serf labor and Asimov was the first to use the word Robotics
b6BVp TIL that the surfing events of Paris 2024 Olympics will be host in Tahiti (French Polynesia), which is 15,716 km from Paris