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TIL happy hours are illegal in Indiana

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D8DJ TIL the Ouija board got its name after being asked what is should be called. When asked what it meant, the board allegedly replied, “good luck.”
R76ya TIL hairdresser Christina M. Jenkins invented the hair weave for African American women in the 1940s.
DQ75Y TIL: Yotsuya Kaidan, the most famous Japanese ghost story of Oiwa has a tradition that when Prior to staging an adaptation of Yotsuya Kaidan the principal actors and the director makes a pilgrimage to Oiwa's grave and ask her permission and blessing for their production.
9wYmD TIL: Ordinary ice is called ice Ih, because it has hexagonal crystals. But if you cool it below -37 °C, scientists believe it will gradually turn into a cubic form, called ice Ic.
x06o TIL in 1971 someone in Pennsylvania tried to sue Satan for having “threatened him, caused him misery, impeded his course in life, and generally precipitated his downfall.” The case was dismissed, partly because it couldn’t be shown that Satan lived in the court’s jurisdiction.