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TIL about Kwanzaa, an African American holiday created in 1966 as an alternative to Christmas.

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JY9oV Today I learned that Yuma High School is the proud home of the Criminals.
ep0xE TIL that Pope Nicholas III Orsini created a botanical garden in Vatican City that has been maintained for over 700 years.
QNMWM TIL when baseball pitchers invented the curveball, the president of Harvard protested, calling it a "dishonest practice unworthy of Harvard students" ... "Progress in athletics is in the direction of fraud and deceit."
epjdJ TIL while Lion King(1994) earned $2 billion in box office and home media, it earned $3 billion and $8 billion in merchandising and stage adatation respectively.
E1Mn0 TIL world-renowned behaviorist B.F. Skinner worked with the US military and General Mills to create “Pigeons in a Pelican,” which involved training kamikaze pigeons to pilot a missile by pecking at it.