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TIL a year with 13 months of 28 days with a Year Day and Leap Day was already invented in 1902 and used in Eastman Kodak Company. The new month was named Sol in between June and July.

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ne8l9 TIL that there was a live adaptation of "How to Train Your Dragon" called "How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular" that ran in Australia during 2012-2013 from the same people that created "Walking With Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular". The pics are something else.
78D7M TIL the song Turn the Page was inspired by the band going into a Midwest truck stop and having everyone look at the musicians with their long hair and not knowing whether they were a man or woman and laughing at them. They said it happened all the time
e0KX5 TIL Native American Colonel Donehogawa hand-wrote the surrender terms at Appomattox in April 1865 signed by Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who "stared at me for a moment, he extended his hand and said, 'I am glad to see one real American here.' I shook his hand and said, 'We are all Americans.'"
wLwgE TIL that in WWII, Allied statisticians working from the serial numbers of captured or destroyed German tanks’ components were more accurate than conventional espionage at estimating German tank production capacity.
8e6aP TIL in 1590, starving Parisians ground human bones into bread