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TIL Columbus Day was founded as a way to celebrate Italian-Americans at a time when they were treated like second hand citizens

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D1OkP TIL about Arthur John Priest, a "fireman" who survived the sinking of the Titanic...and FIVE OTHER disasters at sea before and after.
gWKD TIL that the Army will be replacing its ineffective ‘digital print’ camo gear in early 2013
xXY7 TIL that during the Dust Bowl, one Texas town paid a man to fire off rockets carrying an explosive mixture of dynamite and nitroglycerin to induce rain.
neD19 TIL that mystery writer and the inventor of the detective novel Edgar Allen Poe's death is actually a mystery itself. The death certificate and medical records were lost and there is no definitive cause of death.
1jxO TIL Soda is so corrosive, that without BPA or equivalent liner, an aluminum can would break after three days