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TIL in Japan women give chocolates to men on Valentine’s Day and the men reciprocate it a month later for White Day.

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5mxP TIL: One night, Richard Nixon left the White House to visit the Lincoln Memorial. While there, he engaged in a political debate with students in DC protesting the Vietnam War.
wLmn7 TIL the Bank of Canada once had to urge Canadian citizens to stop “Spocking” their five dollar bills.
epAAE TIL playing Tetris following a traumatic event prevents the brain from having flashbacks and creating fearful memories
9EEB TIL that having children in your early 20s was a US cultural norm only for baby boomers, and that earlier in the 20th-century eugenicists had warned against it
7lQb TIL on September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons dressed up like Indians and massacred about 120 men, women, and children who were traveling through Utah in a wagon train.