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TIL that today, January 20th is National Good Day Day, per Ice Cube’s “Today Was A Good Day”

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b5j4 TIL that 2,500 people were arrested for cannibalism in the 1930’s during the Holodomor Famine in Ukraine
7r0Yr TIL China has successfully used snake oil as medicine due to the high levels of Omega-3 in some snakes
vPOVx TIL that the actor Paul Dooley was also a writer for The Electric Company and created the characters Fargo North-Decoder, and Easy Reader.
Lpym TIL a poor African American washer woman saved up over $250,000 over her lifetime, then gave most of it away to start a scholarship fund for young black students.
788DX TIL In 1974 at a Canadian army training base in Quebec, cadets were being trained to handle discarded explosives. A cadet asked one of the instructors if he could pull the pin on the grenade, and the instructor told him it was safe. It exploded, killing 6 cadets and injuring 65 others.