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TIL the USSR changed to a six day week to force Christians to work on Sunday and made Christmas a national day of work

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N7M8J TIL that the inventor of the frisbee was literally cremated into a frisbee when he died.
YEB7 TIL the president of Georgia (the country) fired the entire Georgian police force in 2005 because of its corruption.
X5V8 TIL Robert E. Lee had diarrhea at the Battle of Gettysburg and many believe that may have contributed to some of his poor decisions
Z8oV4 TIL that in 1829, nineteen Australian convicts revolted and seized a ship near Tasmania, which they then sailed to Japan. Though they offered gifts, including a boomerang, the Japanese expelled them and they ended up being recaptured in China.
7jkP TIL Roald Dahl was buried with his snooker cues, some very good burgundy, chocolates, HB pencils and a power saw.