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

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wLYv8 TIL that Nikola Tesla predicted the modern cell phone in 1926: “We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but...we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face... a man will be able to carry one in his pocket”
6EkdQ TIL that a annual tradition at some minor league hockey games around Christmas is to throw stuffed animals on the field for charity when the home team scores a goal. The unofficial record is held by the Hershey Bears with 45,650
KY9vQ TIL: In 1795, Liberty Hall Academy admitted a student by the name of John Chavis, thereby making him the first African American on record to attend college, and later to become the first to be licensed by the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
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