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TIL there’s Evidence the Flood Story Predates Noah

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gMAey TIL about World Hello Day, a Holiday created in the 70s to remind the world that conflicts should be resolved with communication. It is celebrated by verbally greeting 10 or more people.
W707B TIL A Japanese engineer survived both the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombs. During the Hiroshima blast, he threw himself into a ditch just 3 kilometers from ground 0. Three days later, his boss in Nagasaki was calling him crazy for saying that a bomb had destroyed Hiroshima when Nakazaki was hit.
5YEJ9 TIL the word ancient Egyptians used for solving mathematical problems that involved finding unknown quantities was "Aha".
MgEW TIL following the Volstead Act that began the Prohibition, crime rose by 24%, drug addiction by 44%, and federal expenditure on prisons rose by a staggering 1000%
1dRD TIL Festivus, the parody-secular holiday celebrated on December 23rd on the TV show Seinfeld, was an actual family tradition celebrated by one of the show’s writers, Dan O'Keefe, since the 1960’s.