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TIL that 8.2% of Norwegians eat tacos every Friday night

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89K TIL in 2009, a Swiss-made watch was found in a 400-year-old Chinese tomb.
6LeZ TIL General Order No. 11 (1862) was an order issued by Ulysses S. Grant ordering the expulsion of Jews in his district, comprising areas of TN, MS, and KY as part of a campaign against a black market in Southern cotton, which he thought was being run “mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders.”
NX4XE TIL in 2017 researchers recorded a praying mantis which regularly hunted one to two guppy fish every night on a roof garden in India. Previously, aquatic prey was believed anomalous for mantises, as they were thought to have difficulty seeing movement in dark waters.
ANa6x TIL that Fantasmagorie (French word for phantasmagoria) was the first animated cartoon film in history produced by French cartoonist Emile Cohl in 1908.
kJLod TIL that on Labor Day weekend 1969, in Great Barrington, MA (and a few other Berkshire towns), over 220 + people claimed to have seen a UFO, and three people claimed to have been abducted! At one point, the town even created a monument, and the event was recognized by their historical society!