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TIL Marquis de Lafayette was buried in Paris with dirt from Bunker Hill battlefield

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b6LJN TIL that in 1907 French waiters went on strike for better pay, more time off - and the right to grow mustaches. At the time, lower-class workers were forbidden to have facial hair.
P5Ww TIL the Kodak company used a 13-month calendar from 1924 to 1989 and George Eastman pushed for its worldwide acceptance.
vPaej TIL in 2018, the term “Ass-Clown” was added into Webster’s Dictionary, crediting Mike Judge as the screenwriter behind Office Space for coining it
awKVM TIL during WWII Mounds candy bar operated a small fleet of ships that transported coconuts from the Caribbean and reported on Nazi ship movements to the US Military.
kOJNE TIL In 1979 a stadium hosted Disco Demolition Night. Cost was ¢99 if you brought a disco record. 50,000 people showed up to see them blow up the records in between games. Thousands rushed the field in a frenzy. This is referred to as “The Night Disco Died” and is linked to the decline of the genre