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TIL Colonists in pre-Revolutionary America celebrated Guy Fawkes Night by burning effigies of the Pope...it was called Pope Night

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XYoD TIL that a former President of Equatorial Guinea celebrated the Christmas of 1975 by having 150 of his opponents executed in a soccer stadium by soldiers dressed as Santa Claus.
p8wEQ TIL that the tiny European country of San Marino conferred citizenship on Abraham Lincoln, who responded by thanking them and praising their system of government.
V1N0 TIL many languages do not have separate words for blue and green, they are considered different shades of the same colour.
V8Ap TIL Highway hypnosis is a mental state where a person can drive a vehicle great distances responding to external events in the expected safe & correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so. Partial or complete amnesia related to the time spent driving can develop for the driver
ANLAx TIL about how the Royals of Hawai'i went to Queen Victoria's golden Jubilee and that Queen Kapi'olani of the Hawaiian islands was seated two seats to Queen Victoria, a Sign that she was a guest of high status.