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TIL The 1940 census is online and you can search for ancestors easily.

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4X5ab TIL there is a time system called Decimal Time (which is not the same as Metric Time) which splits the day into 10 hours of 100 minutes, with each minute being 100 seconds. A decimal minute is about 86 seconds in our current measurement.
XbnD TIL that in 1987 a man convinced 2.8 million people to send him a penny each for his college education
aavZ TIL that Smash Mouth has had issues distinguishing themselves away from Shrek, leading to the band correcting countless people on Twitter.
EZxX TIL That in 1992, Pope John Paul II apologized for the church’s harsh treatment of Galileo Galilei for his idea that the Earth went around the Sun.
dx9K TIL The residence of Saranac Lake New York said no to a Walmart in their town and instead, opened a community owned store.