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TIL about City-Gods. In Folk Chinese Religion, adherents believe that when a city is founded, a local deity shall emerge in heaven & watch over that specific city & its people. These deities are usually deified historic local officials, or local spirits & Dragons living in nearby holy sites/rivers.

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JbLm TIL In 1996, Rob Schneider established the Rob Schneider Music Foundation. The foundation returned music education to Pacifica’s elementary schools by paying the teachers’ salaries and providing funds for instruments and equipment. Prior to this the schools did not have music education for years
LkjyV TIL that, contrary to popular belief, friction is not the primary cause of spacecraft heating up on re-entry. Rather, the heat comes from the air in front of the craft being highly compressed. This is also why the leading edges get the hottest.
6EWM7 TIL in addition to the protests & death threats Ruby Bridges had to face as the first black kid in a white school, her father lost his job, the local grocery store stopped serving the family, & her sharecropper grandparents were turned off their land.
Z4ED TIL Keith Richards would help set up the elaborate speaker systems on stage for the Rolling Stones concerts, so they would have a secret place to sniff pharmeceutical cocaine during their performance.
B88K TIL that in 2013 a Manhattan dad was deemed “wholly incapable” of parenting his 4-year-old son because he refused to take him to McDonald’s.