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TIL the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade is older than the USA

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kO9nW TIL in 2019 an iconic piece of Flint graffiti was vandalized with another graffiti - a Grand Trunk Western Railroad bridge changed to read "Grand Funk Railroad" had graffiti painted over the "F" and one of the GFR band members' names painted there.
6E7BW TIL in 2012 a 22-year-old man on a business trip sent a wrong-number text to a woman 30 years older; she replied that she'd like to hang out anyway. They went to a concert together, started dating, got married, and in 2019 she needed a kidney transplant and he donated his kidney to her.
BgXoe TIL an early Fax machine was demonstrated at the 1851 World's fair and the first commercial telefax service was in 1865, 11 years before the telephone.
e6kE TIL that once the Babylonians could predict when solar eclipses would occur, they would install a substitute king during this period. As they believed that these eclipses were an evil omen, this substitute king could be blamed. (He usually was killed after - of course making the omen true.)
kOe01 TIL that Albania, the only European country with a Muslim majority at the time, had their Jewish population triple during WWII due to a code of honor called 'Besa' where it was an honor to protect those in refuge. Almost no Jews were handed over to the Germans with exception to one family.