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TIL - 2000 was the first year Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed in all 50 states

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m11lo TIL Frank Dixon, author of the Hardy Boys books and Carolyn Keene author of the Nancy Drew Series don't exist. They are actually pseudonyms for a variety of writers who wrote those stories
G7M7 TIL doctors are transplanting poop from healthy people into the stomachs of people with certain illnesses–and it is healing them at a rate of 91-98%.
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a8N8y TIL During World War II the Ontario government tried to rename the small town of Swastika (named in 1906) to Winston. The locals responded by taking down the Winston sign and placing a new Swastika sign which read “To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first.”