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TIL It was illegal to get a tattoo in New York City between 1961 and 1997, which forced tattoo artists to operate on an underground basis.

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BnEx TIL that Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” is why we say “Merry Christmas” today. The phrase had been around before, but when the book was an instant hit in 1843 it popularized it right at a time when Christmas began to establish as an annual tradition again, so the phrase stuck.
N7DmE TIL at the Altamont music festival, dubbed "Woodstock West", doctors were forced to send out an emergency call for thorizene, a sedative that mitigates the bad effects of hallucinogenic drugs. Also, while four deaths occurred - four births also happened, hence the overall attendance went unchanged.
OJkg TIL the Soviet Union had a water computer created in 1928 that was used until the 1980s.
D1j4J TIL H.R. Giger was invited to design the Batmobile for Batman Forever but his design was rejected: His unique "X" shaped design was to include articulated front legs/mandibles, retractable fins, and gatling gun emplacements on each of the four pods on the sides of the vehicle
R7Ye1 TIL of the 10,000 year clock. Currently being constructed in Texas.