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TIL that Halifax sends Boston a Christmas tree every year for their help with one of the largest non-nuclear explosions the world has witnessed.

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gMXnD TIL: Covent Garden Ladies was London's directory of prostitutes published from 1757-95. It advertised different women, for example: "Miss Clicamp: finest, fattest figure as fully finished for fun and frolick as fertile fancy ever formed. Fortunate for the true lovers of fat."
OXBg TIL using multiple forms of media at the same time is linked to anxiety and depression.
oPXR TIL literacy in North Korea is defined by the ability to write “Kim Il-Sung”
ZpKwB TIL that the city of Philadelphia, which was where Washington had to live when he was president, had laws in place that said any slave that lived there for more than 6 months would be freed. So, Washington set up a rotational schedule exchanging his slaves between states to prevent their freedom.
awW9A TIL about Potoooooooo, a popular racing horse that was formerly known as Potatoes, but was changed because the person who wrote his name on his corn bin misheard it as "Pot-8-Os".