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TIL that for a couple of years in the twentieth century, Colorado, Mississippi and Texas celebrated Thanksgiving twice a year on the third and fourth Thursdays of November.

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pWJG TIL Hitler’s plan for a rebuilt Berlin included the “People’s Dome”, a hall so big that if it were occupied at capacity, “the condensed breath of the [180,000] people would have accumulated in the dome and caused a rainfall”
R5kb4 TIL Humans can run the world because they can cooperate both flexibly and in a large number.
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