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TIL that black people were only allowed to eat vanilla ice cream on July 4th, so butter pecan was created as an alternative.

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VMbm TIL that the Olympics asked for drummer Keith Moon, who died in 1978, to perform at this year’s closing ceremony.
7rJPM TIL Martin Luther advocated for Christians to follow pandemic orders, adding that he’d only put himself in the pandemic’s harm’s way if it were to help someone who truly needed help.
9AmG TIL that up until 1933 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons were released into the air at the conclusion of the parade and would stay airborne above the city for as long as a week. A return address was stitched in and people who returned them received $100 reward.
9Y66D TIL that President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House. Then, Reagan took them down. Now, one is in China.
7rvwP TIL that if you dig through any part of the continental U.S. Not only would you be nowhere near China, but there's actually a very slim chance you'd hit any land at all.