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TIL: Advent Calendars were originally called "Nicholas Calendars" and we're given out on December 6th.

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jNwya TIL that after firefighters saved piglets from a fire, the farmer sent them sausages made from the piglets as a token of appreciation.
Z8lja TIL Tens of thousands of Romani were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp, along with Serbs, Jews, and Anti-fascist Muslims and Croats. Yad Vashem estimates that the Porajmos was most intense in Yugoslavia, where around 90,000 Romani were killed.
QNMme TIL Encyclopaedia Britannica's best all-time year was 1990 when 100,000 sets were sold. Sales started falling when Microsoft released Encarta in 1993. In 2010, the final print run produced 12,000 sets.
9YRRm TIL a Canadian named Dominique Rousselle has spent 1 month every year for the past 20 years traveling to Thailand to provide food and medicine to stray dogs
6E0jm TIL about the New England's Dark Day occurred on May 19, 1780, when an unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.