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TIL about the Scoppio Del Carro in Florence, Italy. This 300 year old Easter celebration shoots a flaming mechanical bird into a cart full of fireworks. A successful explosion means good luck in the future!

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m1J0P TIL about the massacre of Huta Pieniacka where soldiers of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS brutally murdered more than a thousand ethnic Poles
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wLB4J TIL about Roy Pearson, who in 2005 tried to sue a dry cleaners for $54 million (originally $67 million) USD for mental anguish and inconvenience after they "lost" his favorite pair of pants. He lost the case in 2007.