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TIL at Christmastime in Ethiopia, villagers play a long-distance hockey-like game called Gena in the space between villages but with no defined boundaries.

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jKoN TIL, that there is a demon found in Catholic lore that collects all the mispronounced words said by priests and puts them in a sack. That sack is later carried by the offending priests in hell.
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OQDL TIL a 1913 storm called the White Hurricane “battered four of the five lakes, killed 250 people, sunk 12 ships and caused $120 million in damage. “It was the most ferocious storm ever recorded on the Great Lakes at that time or since.”
Gj6E TIL that Joseph Haydn, a classical music composer, wrote a musical piece in which the musicians gradually leave the stage until 2 violins are left in the end
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