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TIL February 30th happened once in 1712 in Sweden.

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dDnEj TIL there was a successful orbital launch from Kenya in 1967
7ylM TIL Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor Menelik II ordered two newly invented electric chairs as a form of humane capital punishment and realized they were useless in his country without electricity
9v5r TIL that in 2005 capuchin monkeys were taught how to use money. The monkeys used the money to buy sex from other monkeys.
rNODw TIL about James Dallas Egbert III - a 16-year old college student at MSU who experienced an episode of self-harm and disappeared for several days. A family-retained private investigator believed Dungeons & Dragons was responsible, & began a nationwide panic sweeping both country & gaming industry.
OM57 TIL in 1836 a group of young boys discovered a group of 17 miniature coffins buried in a cave outside Edinburgh, Scotland. The coffins contain tiny dolls, each individually dressed, and the coffins all differ in their decoration. No one knows who buried them, when, or why.