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TIL Boxing Day in the UK used to be pushed back a day to the 27th December if it fell on a Sunday. The 26th would be Christmas Sunday.

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E14Do TIL that in 2001, Alanis Morissette single-handedly extended the Broadway run of "Jane Eyre" by a month, donating $150,000 worth of tickets to poor kids
JklQ TIL before the 1900’s, it was theorised that birds slept at the bottom of lakes or migrated to the moon for the winter.
x6Za1 TIL about tooth-in-eye surgery, a surgery for restoring vision where a tooth implanted in the eye. For the surgery, the patient has a tooth removed and shaped, a plastic lens added, and put into their cheek for a few months to allow flesh to grow around it, then removed and implanted into their eye.
6E4RQ TIL Rosemary Kennedy was probably never mentally ill at all. Her lobotomy was most likely as a result of the rigid expectations placed on her.
16BZD TIL famed Mexican wrestler El Santo's brother was actually the one that innovated a high-flying style of wrestling whereas his impact went beyond the ring and into film.