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TIL Nativity scenes in Barcelona often traditionally contain one figure pooping off in the corner

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Z8p6Q TIL the last new enclosed mall in America was built in 2006, and 2007 marked the first time since the 1950s that a new indoor mall was not built in the USA.
r5lx TIL Gin descends from a juniper liquor first distilled in Belgium or Holland. During the Thirty Years’ War, England’s army saw Dutch soldiers fortifying themselves for battle by drinking genever. They brought this so-called “Dutch courage” back home.
kJ70m TIL about some of the names given to gene mutations bred into fruit flies by scientists. Cheap Date is a gene that increases susceptibility to alcohol, the Van Gogh gene produces swirling of hair on the wings and the Swiss Cheese gene produces holes in the brain.
7rWpP TIL Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife was arrested after she pulled a gun out of her vagina and threatened her boyfriend with it after a dispute about space aliens.
oE87 TIL American adults(18+) have an average of two close friends they are able to confide in with 4% of adults having none.