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TIL That up until the 1970s there existed a law in Ireland in which all bars had to close...on March 17.

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WkJXY TIL The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima named by it’s pilot Col Paul Tibbets, after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was named after a character of the book, Enola; or, Her fatal mistake. With eerily prophetic passages including “He is the bird of ill omen.”
K5P4 TIL The original Bramley apple tree planted in 1809, from which ALL Bramley apples trees are cloned, is still alive, but dying from a fungal infection.
awRQM TIL that anyone on earth can request and reserve time using the Hubble Space Telescope.
nbmG TIL Burger King had a promo where if you deleted 10 Facebook friends you’d receive a free Whopper.
MlpW TIL that Paul Revere did not complete his famous ride; he was captured by the British. He was riding with two other men; William Dawes escaped, then fell off his horse. The third man, Dr. Samuel Prescott, was the only one who actually made it to their destination, Concord.