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TIL The Snow in the Blizzard of 1949 was So Hard and So Deep they Used Dynamite to Blast the Trains Free

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LkDW0 TIL that 'OK' is thought to be the most frequently spoken or written word on the planet, and likely originated from a 1840's fad of "comical misspellings" which turned 'all correct' to 'oll korrect'. A nearly 200 year old meme, basically.
6eRY TIL, Sir Issac Newton hated his mother and step-father; he even threatened to kill them with fire.
Me7Lm TIL: Canada has more indoor and outdoor rinks than the rest of the world combined.
5nbQ TIL The Hershey Kiss bell-choir Christmas commercial first came out in 1989, and has been running ever since each holiday season.
8Zd4 TIL New York Point lost out to Braille in the “War of the Dots” when Helen Keller considered it inferior to Braille. Her claim that it caused literacy problems among blind children was one of the chief arguments against New York Point and by 1916 Braille prevailed.