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TIL Amazon Japan first introduced Black Friday in 2019 by giving discounts on black-colored items

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nWAo TIL In 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102, which outlawed the private ownership of gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates by American citizens, forcing them to sell these to the Federal Reserve.
mxRVy TIL about Caodaism a Syncretic Religion with about 4.4 million adherents . Their Pantheon Includes Joan of Arc , William Shakespeare, Jesus ,Muhammed and Lenin (among others).
78Wvb TIL there are 160 separate photographic portraits of Frederick Douglass, which is more than Abraham Lincoln.
kJ4d4 TIL the woman who popularised “gender reveal parties” had multiple miscarriages, and when she finally had a pregnancy which lasted long enough to find out the gender of the baby, decided to throw a party to celebrate. She now regrets it.
DXBY TIL Dolphins will communicate with one another over a telephone, and appear to know who they are talking to