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TIL in Maryland, there is a mariner celebration of burning socks on the equinox, since mariners only wear socks in the winter.

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b6no7 TIL As a teenager, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping went to Europe on a work-study program designed by anarchists who hoped a Western education would create a cohort capable of reviving China
Eg1D0 TIL of the "Boring Billion". From roughly 1.8 billion BC to 0.8 billion BC, relatively nothing happened on earth. There was tectonic stability, a static climate, and hardly any biological evolution. It has been termed "The Dullest Time in Earth's History".
9wlmB TIL that relations between Joe Fraizer and Muhammad Ali were so bad, that at one point Fraizer said that Ali’s Parkinson’s was a punishment from God.
GYdME TIL - Over 90% of people who were diagnosed allergic to penicillin as children will lose this allergy over a 10 year period. A test can confirm this and open up more drugs to you for treatment
5YE5D TIL when former NFL safety Dave Duerson took his life he left a note that read, “Please see that my brain is given to the NFL’s brain bank.” He shot himself in the chest rather than his head so as to preserve his brain. Doctors confirmed that he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.