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TIL that one town in Scotland celebrates Halloween on the last Friday of October instead of the 31st, since there’s no school or work (for most) the next day.

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8aL7G TIL: That upwards of 50% of all accidental deaths in the Tudor period were drownings
N7oje TIL that the Swiss Constitution enshrines the right for every inhabitant to have a nuclear fallout shelter. If new houses and apartments are built without bunkers, the owners have to contribute a tax to their Canton to secure a place in a government-owned nuclear fallout shelter.
Pp4L TIL that Shingo, a small village in Japan, claims to be the burial place of Jesus Christ and his younger brother Isukiri
nKDd TIL that a single incident of peeing on the Alamo in Texas resulted in a penalty of $4,000 to repair “damages”, plus 18 months in jail.
KORy4 TIL That H. P. Lovecraft believed that black people were not human but "beast[s] ... in semi-human figure, filled with vice.".