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TIL Halloween is a satanic holiday and we should stop celebrating it

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5YlkB TIL Mozart had a pet starling, which he bought after hearing him sing an excerpt from one of his pieces. After the starling died, Mozart wrote a humorous poem, which he read at its elaborate funeral.
R78oa TIL that Trader Joe's claimed to have invented the 'puff dog', a hot dog in puff pastry, not realising that the UK and other Commonwealth countries have had virtually the same thing for decades.
Goo7 TIL a USMC General and Medal of Honor recipient wrote a bestselling book describing how wars exist to enrich corporations. In 1935.
ekEn TIL that Joseph Stalin, though depicted “as physically massive and majestic,” was actually only “5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m)”. He was shorter than Napoleon and President Truman referred to him as “a little squirt” after first meeting the dictator.
1ab47 TIL that Haitian Hip-Hop artist, Wyclef Jean, mishandled 16 million dollars of his charity for the Haiti earthquake in 2010