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TIL That Reindeer Eyes Change Color by Season.

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loWd7 TIL: Arizona refused to recognize Martin Luther King Day until 1993. In 1986, the Governor declared it would be recognized as a holiday in 1987. The next Governor repealed the recognition before it went into effect, and Arizona voters voted against making it a holiday in 1990.
m8WO TIL: Everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition. they had to give 30 days warning
6rMZ TIL it’s a faux pas in Russia to give your date a dozen flowers; You give an odd number of flowers for a happy occasion, and an even number for condolences.
pA9O TIL that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the captain of a Russian sub, not knowing whether war had broken out, decided to launch a nuclear torpedo. Vasila Arkhipov, the second-in-command, didn’t consent and convinced the captain to surface, preventing nuclear war.
d8xMB TIL that, barred from working by the Nazis as a Jewish actor, Leon Reuss tricked them into celebrating him as an Aryan idol by adjusting his dialect to that of mountain farmers, growing his beard, bleaching his hair by bathing every 10 days in diluted hydrogen peroxide, & claiming to be a peasant.