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TIL Japan celebrates Easter, but with no Christian connotations, as a spring family holiday

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woV9E TIL that there have been four (4) different successive "Madison Square Garden" sports arenas in New York City, dating back to 1879; the current iteration of MSG (atop Penn Station) was built in 1968 and is several blocks away from Madison Square.
9w0dp TIL that there is a conspiracy theory that Avril Lavigne died in 2003 and was replaced by a body double - Melissa Vandella
Z8XwB TIL of the Kudirka Incident: a Soviet sailor swam from his ship and attempted to defect with the American Coast Guard. Not knowing the protocol for granting asylum, the Coast Guard eventually allowed the Soviets onto their vessel, where they arrested him and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
prlZ TIL 2/3 of Shakespeare sonnets have rhymes that do not work in modern English
b9l5N TIL that Christopher Columbus was thrown in jail upon his return to Spain for mistreating the native population of Hispaniola