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TIL that Labor Day was created by President Grover Cleaveland in 1894, after 30 striking railroad employees were killed during the Pullman Strike

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mxgly TIL that the terms "lowercase letters" and "uppercase letters" are known as such because older letter printing presses stored the two types of letters on separate cases. The shift key is also called the shift key due to it being used to shift the two cases.
ne7Vb TIL Chinese bishops use a violet hat instead of green hat like the rest of the world because in China green hats are associated with infidelity and used as a symbol for a cuckold.
rRQZd TIL, in 1976, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations determined the JFK and MLK assassinations were likely the result of conspiracies.
b9GW0 TIL about Marshall McLuhan who predicted the internet 30 years before it was invented.
kJWE4 TIL George Michael worked and re-worked his song "Careless Whisper" for 2 and half year's before finally releasing it. He went thru 8 saxophonists before finally settling on Steve Gregory who was able to play the riff exactly as Michael heard it in his head. The song topped charts in ten countries