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TIL Maryland's state song is just a rip off of "Oh Christmas Tree"

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OG5a7 TIL Sir Nicholas Winton, widely renowned for saving Jewish children in Czechoslovakia in 1939, was never bestowed upon the honorific "Righteous Among the Nations", for it is exclusively awarded to people of non-Jewish descent.
b9ega TIL that we almost had a symmetrical 13 month calendar where every month had 28 days and the each day-number was always on the same day of the week (26th was always a Thursday).
X0EAk TIL that "Goodnight Moon" author Margaret Wise Brown died of an embolism following surgery, when kicking up her leg to show her nurses how well she was feeling caused a blood clot that had formed in her leg to dislodge and travel to her heart.
XAk6 TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China
GAPZj TIL The P2 Masonic Lodge was an illegal Italian lodge which had both past and future leaders of government (like Silvio Berlusconi). They were heavily involved with various Mafia groups, Planned a coup attempt, and appear to have had ties with the CIA's Operation Gladio.