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TIL that Easter is really the celebration of the fertility goddess Eostre and that eggs and bunnies are her symbols.

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BrlNd TIL Ahmed Best, the actor who provided the motion capture and voice of Jar Jar Binks, considered suicide due to the negative reception to the character
DQaXg TIL China, virtually closed to Americans for over a decade, opened its doors to a Danish author from National Geographic for a lengthy tour conducted by communist officials in 1964
69bR7 TIL the same guy ghostwrote the novelizations for STAR WARS, STAR TREK, and ALIEN.
b6gAZ TIL Mary Ann Cotton (1832-1873) Was Britain’s First Documented Serial Killer
W7Ya8 TIL about MS St. Louis, a refugee ship that left Hamburg in May 1939 carrying a load of passengers, most of them Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. They were subsequently turned away by Cuba, the US, and Canada. The ship was forced to dock at Antwerp, and the passengers divvied up to various countries.