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TIL that millions of Japanese people celebrate Christmas with KFC as a modern tradition.

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oBK4o TIL Obsidian can be made into surgical scalpels by flint knapping, creating an edge only one molecule wide and the edge is so smooth and sharp it can cut between cells.
e0xWb TIL about Pavlik Morozov: a Ukrainian boy who was indoctrinated by the Young Pioneers, turned his parents in to the police for hiding grain, and actively participated in their assassination. He was then killed by his grandfather for betraying his family. Pavlik was celebrated as a martyr by Soviets.
4X4Qa TIL that Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water.
L959 TIL Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl wrote and recorded a series of songs in 1990 and 1991. He declined to introduce the songs to Kurt Cobain thinking it would disrupt Kurt’s writing process. The songs were later released under the Pseudonym “Late!” On an album called “Pocketwatch”.
GYWXE TIL Canada has banned members of the Westboro Baptist Church from entering their country due to hate speech.