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TIL of ‘The World’ a cruise ship where residents can permanently live as it travels around the globe.

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Bgwak TIL that the origin of Halloween lies in in Celtic culture. It can be traced back 1000s of years to a cross-quarter day in the Celtic calendar that is halfway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. So when Irish people emigrated to North America, they took their tradition with them.
l4NA TIL Hugh Hefner helped Dick Gregory to fund a $25,000 reward to find the three civil rights workers who were kidnapped and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba, Mississippi, in 1964.
KyRw TIL Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club was initially published as a 7-page short story – which exists as chapter 6 in the eventual novel.
6EA4Z TIL A bunch of kids Died during the lychee season because they would eat nothing afterwards. Turns out, lychees contain a deadly toxin that kills if not taken with other food.
1mmX TIL the California Roll was invented in Vancouver, Canada. The rice on the outside of the roll was because Vancouverites didn’t want to eat seaweed.