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TIL Christmas was banned in Boston from 1659 to 1681
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TIL Kinder Morgan believes oil spills are good for the economy because it creates jobs to clean it up.
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TIL Lymphocytes kill targets including tumor cells by inducing them to undergo programmed cell death aka apoptosis.
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TIL Michael Bay was under consideration to direct the movie Phone Booth (2002), but he was removed from consideration after the first question he had about the script was, "OK, how do we get this thing out of the damn telephone booth?"
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TIL that the first alarm clock could only ring at 4 AM because it was made for a factory worker who needed to wake up early.
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TIL an electric bell has been running off the same battery for 170 years and no one knows what the battery is made of.