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TIL The last month of the year used to be February

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xV5B TIL in 1943 Packard Motors promoted 3 blacks to work next to whites on the assembly line causing 25,000 workers to walk off the job.
W9pY TIL “tunnel of love” boat rides were created as an excuse for couples to have physical contact in a time when holding hands in public was frowned upon
dBmQ TIL that redheads need more anesthesia during surgery and produce their own vitamin D.
5YQX9 TIL there is a specied of bird called "Honeyguide" (in Africa) that reponds to humans' calls by guiding the humans to wild bees' hive, waiting until the humans have smoked out the bees and felled the tree with the hive and harvested the honey, and feed on the wax in the leftover bees' hive.
LXe9 TIL Oil consumption is now below 1995 levels and the US is moving away from oil