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TIL: Decorative Five Pointed metal stars–Barnstars–derived from Amish barn-painted symbols or “Hex Signs”, which were borrowed from witchcraft / Germanic paganism as magical protection against misfortune

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PYemL TIL that, as a child, Jack Black (real name Thomas Jacob Black) appeared in a commercial for the 1982 Atari videogame "Pitfall!"
VdrD TIL that in 1860s, four white students at Phillips Exeter Academy confronted their headmaster and demanded that he kick out the black students - his response was “The colored student will stay, you can do as you please.”
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