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TIL that nudists refer to non-nudists as “Textiles”
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TIL a supply specialist in the Korean War didn’t know the code word for mortar rounds and sent crates full of Tootsie Rolls to Marines in need of mortar rounds
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TIL in May 2007, a man was singing the song "My Way" during karaoke and was shot and killed as he sang. The security guard was complaining that the man's rendition was off-key, and when the victim refused to stop singing, the guard pulled out a .38-caliber pistol and shot the man dead.
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TIL The Easter Bunny originated among German Lutherans in 1682 and originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behavior at the start of the season of Eastertide. He then would proceed with bringing colored eggs for the children.
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TIL Casper the Friendly Ghost died as a teen because of pneumonia from sledding all day.
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TIL Alexandra Elbakyan, a science graduate born in Kazakhstan due to the frustrations of publisher paywalls she found once returning back home from a research internship at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlantis, founded the largest pirate site for academic papers Sci-Hub