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TIL they celebrate American Thanksgiving in the Netherlands.

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Z8bRp TIL Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart
nevZr TIL the 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza was one of the first figures to publicly declare themselves as Atheists.
epEwL TIL Elizabeth Short’s (the Black Dahlia) mother found out she’d been murdered when a reporter called her and said her daughter won a beauty contest. The reporter then proceeded to get a bunch of information about Elizabeth before telling her mother she'd been brutally murdered and hanging up.
loenA TIL that, in America, before TV was on 24 hours, there was a nightly sign off where the Star Spangled Banner was played and an image of the American flag was shown before the TV cut to static.
rR7Pe TIL: Gotham City historically was in Southern New Jersey in the DC Universe