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TIL Christmas was banned in Boston from 1659 to 1681

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yWAX TIL Thomas Paine was condemned to be guillotined in the French Revolution. He survived because the prison officers marked the wrong side of his cell door by mistake, and didn’t notice when it was closed
OX57 TIL that Japanese bathrooms have a button that plays the flushing sound to mask the sound of your own business.
wLJxW TIL that Bolivia makes a soft drink called 'Coca Colla' which is made with real coca leaf. It is a local competitor of Coca-Cola and Red Bull, but is currently illegal to export under both Bolivian and U.N. drug laws
ORgR TIL the inventor of automatic telephone switching was an undertaker named Almon Strowger who created it because the wife of his competitor was the town operator who directed any calls for an undertaker to her husband rather than Strowger.
OWGX TIL The previous United Airlines CEO was payed out $37 million after quitting amid a corruption investigation