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TIL February 30th happened once in 1712 in Sweden.

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9YNvp TIL at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, an 18-year old Union lieutenant, Arthur MacArthur, took his regimental flag and led the charge to the summit, an act for which he received the Medal of Honor. His son was Douglas MacArthur, the general in charge of the Pacific theater during WWII.
odG8 TIL Dr. Francis M. Fesmire won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering how to cure the hiccups with rectal massage.
Oo9n1 TIL Parents who give their children bleach enemas to cure autism have shared photos of "rope worms" expelled from their children, claiming they are parasites killed by the concoction. They are actually intestinal lining.
1aNMV TIL Japan Created a Kimono for Every Nation at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
9PrB TIL that Mattel sued the band Aqua because of the double entendres in the song ‘Barbie Girl’. The judge awarded in favour of Aqua, saying “The parties are advised to chill”