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TIL This Ohio Dad Booked 6 Flights Just to Join His Flight Attendant Daughter During Her Christmas Shifts in 2018.

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xVRW1 TIL that leftist mural artist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint a mural in the lobby of Rockefeller Center. His mural included a portrait of Lenin, leading the Rockefellers to cancel the commission and destroy the unfinished mural. Rivera later recreated the piece in Mexico.
4XZZ5 TIL Japan and Poland were allies during World War II
JYYrv TIL for several hundred years the Catholic Church cited a document (the Donation of Constantine) claiming Emperor Constantine bestowed vast territory and spiritual and temporal power on the Pope. It was clearly demonstrated to be a forgery in the 1400s
W7XOL TIL about the "Green Card Lottery" the first commercial computer spam campaign (Via Usenet) which was started by the now disbarred layer Laurence Canter and his wife in 1994.
vP7 TIL that Neil Gaiman wanted to make a movie of “Anansi Boys”, but the moviemakers wanted to change the black characters to white and remove any magic (in a story about Gods and magic), so he refused.