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TIL FDR died just as they were making a portrait of him, leaving the portrait incomplete.

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opro TIL some shots of the parade scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off were secretly filmed during an actual parade. The production’s float was inserted into the parade “unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the governor”
E1QQ7 TIL of George Engel; an American anarchist who, after being falsely arrested for a bombing, wrote a letter asking the judge not to give any clemency. His last words before being hanged were "Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life".
RK11 TIL Canadian Thanksgiving was the original Thanksgiving. The first one was celebrated by Martin Frobisher in 1578, who wanted to praise god that he survived his expedition to search for the Northwest Passage.
xeOw TIL in Jainism, there is a socially acceptable form of suicide in which the person starves themself. The rationale being that one can reflect on their life in the time that it takes to starve.
a8YJy TIL that the world's largest desert is the Antarctic Polar Desert, which covers over 5.5 million square miles. ❄️ I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to get lost there.