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TIL Christmas was banned in Boston from 1659 to 1681

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e0Gp4 TIL despite being in DC, the seal of Georgetown University says "Georgetown College on the Banks of the Potomac in Maryland" as the university was founded in 1789, 12 years before it became part of DC.
LQxAP TIL the bodyguard assigned to protect Abraham Lincoln left at intermission, got drunk at a saloon and fell asleep. He was fired three years later for falling asleep again on duty.
8PGX TIL Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon, has claimed that “aliens have contacted humans several times” on Kerrang radio in 2008
78AJP TIL about Edward Dando, notorious glutton and dine-and-dasher in 1800's Britain, who would eat dozens of oysters, not pay, go to jail, get released, and promptly do it again
0dLy TIL the Black Death still exists, and there are roughly 10 - 15 reported cases each year in the US