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TIL Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs celebrate an ancient festival known as Diwali (or Deepavali) on October 22 and 23. The festival celebrates “the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. ”

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rxbo TIL Colonial Williamsburg was restored largely with funding by John D Rockefeller Jr. The project became an obsession of his. He ultimately spent $1 billion (adj.) to create one of the largest historic sites in the USA. Jr. eventually bought a home nearby, spending several months there each year.
Lk4lV TIL of Eugène-François Vidocq, a formal criminal who founded the first Private Detective agency in 1833. He mostly hired ex-convicts. His innovations include taking a plaster cast of a shoe print and introducing undercover work. He claims to have never informed on someone who stole for real need.
PYJyG TIL by the 1860s the population of freemen had already swelled to 500,000 in contrast to the nearly 4 million enslaved people, and they were some of the leading critics of the practice.
XENZk TIL Researchers at the University of Montreal were attempting a study on the behaviour of men who watch pornography compared to those who don’t but were unable to find any men who hadn’t consumed porn
Breb TIL the catholic church is spending money to lobby states to not over turn statute of limitation laws that are protecting priest who raped children .