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TIL that Christmas for children in Medieval England meant getting extra beatings so as to ‘remind them of Herod’s cruelty’ instead of getting presents

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gMQG8 TIL that 7-foot tall American boys have a 17% chance to play in NBA
MQDa TIL that the first school massacre in the US took place in Pennsylvania in 1764.
xJGB TIL That a legendary killer camel terrorized 19th century Arizonians by stomping them to death. Oh, and he had a rotting skeleton tied to his back as he prowled the Southwest.
0evy TIL Clementines can be used as candles.
VBG10 TIL that on Halloween in 2008 Doritos released a horror game called Hotel 626 that you could only play from 6pm to 6am and would call you in the middle of the night to scare you