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TIL that long ago, people chewed on tree bark as a method of pain relief. Willow bark has a high amount of salicylic acid, an ingredient still used in aspirin today.

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JYJmB TIL that while Australia and New Zealand commemorates ANZAC Day, each year on 25 April Italy commemorates the end of Nazi occupation during World War II and the victory of the Resistance in Italy
W7eDN TIL of the World calendar, a proposed reform of the Gregorian system that keeps the calendar more in sync with the seasons. It is 364 days long, divided into quarters (91 days each), with an extra day (Worldsday) at the end of the year, and a leap day (Leapyear Day) added every four years.
OGk06 TIL the original Battlestar Galactica incorporated many ideas from Mormon theology.
XEBVj TIL that Kennedy Island in the Solomon Islands is named after President Kennedy who swam there after his boat was sunk by the Japanese in WWII. It was purchased in 2004 for less than a thousand US dollars by someone coincidentally named Kennedy.
wLQmM TIL that one of the animators from Snow White and The Seven Dwarves (1937), Disney’s first animated feature film, is still alive today and was 8 years old during the 1918 Flu.