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Today I learned Guatemala celebrates Day of the Dead by flying giant kites

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W7xk4 TIL of the Church War of Jonesboro, a bloody feud in early 1930s Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Things got out of hand so bad, the Arkansas National Guard had to be called in.
Meb8A TIL that rats were thought to be carriers of the bubonic plague and that in Sydney, around 200,000 rats were caught to eliminate the disease.
0NQp TIL In some states in the U.S. it is illegal to collect rainwater on your property and punishable by time in jail
MxoB TIL that the percent symbol (%) is not alone, there is the permille (‰) and the permyriad (‱) as well.
8aKdL TIL Brad Pitt and Sheryl Crow when to college at the same time, had one class together, and both started their professional careers in the same year (1987)