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TIL that Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s can be traced as far back as three years into his first term of presidency

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Bg4yb TIL that the Puritans banned the celebration of Christmas, believing it to be 'popery'. In England, the ban was from 1647 to 1660 and pro-Christmas rioting occurred. In Boston, the ban was from 1659 to 1681 but it was unfashionable to celebrate Christmas there until the 19th century.
vb7L TIL Hans-Ulrich Rudel is the only person to be awarded the “Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds”, the highest a soldier could achieve; he flew 2,530 combat missions and was shot down or forced to land 32 times, several times behind enemy lines.
E1vRp TIL Neil Gaiman wrote the script for the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's classic film Princess Mononoke
E14E7 TIL that the remains of Pocahontas's wedding chapel were found in Jamestown by archaeologists in 2010. The mud-walled structure, where Pocahontas married John Rolfe in 1614, was "the first major English church building in North America."
BgB0K TIL a recent dissertation, published by a speech-language pathologist through UNC Chapel Hill Grad School, argued Dolly Partons free book program actively reinforces white privilege, heteronormativity, & the erasure of dis/abilities, non-normative gender identities & non-normative family structures.