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TIL that Massachusetts once banned Christmas for 22 years because people celebrated too hard--drinking too much, partying in the streets, and breaking into houses

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JYPXV TIL that in 2012, a woman on vacation in Iceland joined a police search party to help find someone who was reported missing, The search went on for hours before she found out that the person they were looking for was herself.
wnEY TIL Steven Spielberg declined to direct the Harry Potter movies and said “It’s just like withdrawing a billion dollars and putting it into your personal bank accounts. There’s no challenge.”
DXEr TIL Babies under the age of 12 months should not be given honey as otherwise they may develop infant botulism.
GrNE TIL Drug trials done by Pfizer without parent consent in the 2000’s resulted in child deaths in Nigeria, and when the attorney general of Nigeria went after Pfizer they hired PI’s to coerce him into dropping all charges
VD8D TIL if the federal government replaced the $1 bill with the $1 coin (and the US population accept the non paper currency), it would save the government approximately $184 million a year, or $5.5 billion over 30 years