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TIL Christmas was banned in Boston from 1659 to 1681

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78lBp TIL Active Listening is listening with the intent to understand the other person fully rather than listening to respond. However, it was criticized by John Gottman's "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" as being of limited usefulness.
xVlab TIL that as the HMS Sheffield was sinking off the Falklands in 1982, the crew gathered round and started singing 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' from Monty Python.
gr574 TIL of Ida Dalser and Benito Albino Mussolini, Benito Mussolini's first wife and son. Fascist agents sought to destroy all traces of their relationship with the future dictator and they both died in asylums where they had been forcibly interned.
Wy8d TIL that on Europe’s longest road of ice you’re actually banned from wearing a seatbelt incase you need to make a speedy exit from your vehicle.
8N54 TIL: Sugar used to be sold in loaves, and you’d cut it with something called “sugar nips”