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TIL Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966 and is an African-American thing, not an African holiday

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b6Y64 TIL of the 1908 Tunguska explosion in Siberia, which experts believe was an asteroid that ripped apart 800 square miles of forest
kJPE4 TIL: The Capuchin monkey and the cappuccino style of coffee are both named after the shade of brown used in the habits of the Franciscan friars of Minor Capuchin
ke67 TIL Melanie Griffith was nicknamed Brainiac in 1992, because she didn’t know Germans had “done bad things” to Jews during World War II until working on the set of Shining Through. She was 34.
kJdM7 TIL that there's an Egyptian Hieroglyph unicode bock! And it has many interesting characters! 𓂺
PMRG TIL That the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has donated over $10,000,000 to charity since they started touring.