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TIL Halloween came from an Irish pagan festival -- and people used to carve faces in turnips, not pumpkins

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6J0X TIL It was legal to perform Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the United States up until 1997.
9YOJM TIL that the pre-cursor to female smart assistants - Siri, Alexa, etc - was a real telephone switchboard operator called Emma Nutt. Nutt was the first female telephone operator, and her success marked the start of the use of the female voice as an entry-point to accessing technology and information.
ap09 TIL cows have best friends and become sad when they are separated
xdag TIL: Cards Against Humanity paid for all the workers at their factory in China that make the cards to go on a week long vacation, their first apparently.
46ao TIL that humans can theoretically survive on a diet entirely composed of nothing but potatoes and butter.