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TIL "Rebound" has been used to describe the period after a break-up since at least the 1830s

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4krxN TIL Tug of war was featured at the Summer Olympics 1900 to 1920.
PYdne TIL that Jim Henson's puppeteers almost never broke character, no matter what happened
GYEXG TIL Congress has met outside Washington DC twice since 1800: July 16, 1987, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of ratification of the Constitution, & at Federal Hall in New York on September 11, 2002, to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
wLZaP TIL that, in 1803, an English town experienced so many ghost sightings that its citizens formed armed ghost-patrols to catch the spirit. The hunt ended when a bricklayer dressed in white was mistaken for the ghost and shot in the face.
awKXZ TIL that animals in heraldry are sometimes shown "pizzled", i.e. with a prominent penis. It was often considered very important for the animal in the local herald to be pizzled - when a Swiss printer forgot a pizzle on the bear in the Appenzell canton's herald in 1579, it almost led to war.