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TIL CT scanners are being used to peek inside trading card packs without opening them to assess their value

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BrvMD TIL the reason that Christmas is celebrated on the 25th December is that Pope Julius I adopted that day as Christ's birthday to appropriate the existing pagan celebration of Sol Invictus that was already celebrated on that day.
65Dl TIL even though Vanilla is often associated with bland or boring, it is actually one of the most complex flavors in existence.
PYyoJ TIL: A Man saves a drowning boy from a River, 30 Years after saving the same boys farther
Ypodd TIL that Mt. Washington in New Hampshire claims to have "the world's worst weather," averaging 110 days per year with hurricane-force winds and the record for wind speed not associated with a tornado or tropical cyclone (231 mph)
dDlJd Today i learned europeans offered bounties for native american scalps. $150 for a males over the age of 12, and $50 for women