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TIL that Kwanzaa and Festivus were both made up in 1966

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RQxa TIL lawmakers got sick after drinking raw milk–which they drank to celebrate passing a law legalizing raw milk as safe for human consumption. Naturally, instead of seeing it for what it was (poetic justice), they refused to blame the raw milk.
ey0b TIL an Air Canada flight in 1983 ran out of fuel mid-flight, but the crew managed to glide the 767 to nearby airport. The plane turned out to have only been filled with half the amount of fuel it needed due to a miscalculation because Canada was in the process of converting to the metric system.
l7Zd1 TIL that digambara monks don’t wear clothes, don’t bathe or clean their teeth, sleep on the ground, only eat food free of pain, cutting or destruction, pluck all the hair off their head and face by hand, and only walk on well-worn, well-lit paths to avoid stepping on insects.
yGAw TIL: American POWS Were Killed in Hiroshima At least twenty-three US servicemen were in Hiroshima when the bomb fell. They were prisoners of war, former aviators, held at several locations in downtown Hiroshima.
QNxoM TIL the 1900 election divided the American Anti-Imperialist League because while its endorsed candidate, William Jennings Bryan, supported anti-imperialism, he also supported free silver, which alienated supporters of the gold standard within the organization