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R5E4 TIL the torture scene with the rat in the heated pot in Game of Thrones was an actual method of torture used during the Red Terror.
NWMP TIL that in 2018 Ash Wednesday will be on Valentine’s Day and Easter will be on April Fool’s Day
QnB6 TIL when the first US ship arrived in China in 1785, the Chinese loved the American flag, calling it “as beautiful as a flower”. Since then, an informal Chinese name for the United States has been the “flower flag country”.
epmM6 TIL that "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (AKA Twas The Night Before Christmas) was first published on this date 200 years ago.
lR57 TIL Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper nearly missed out on his Mercury flight because he buzzed the Johnson Space Center in an F-102 and scared some people.