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TIL there’s an actual fudge factory in Uranus, Missouri. Up to 10,000 people visit Uranus each month.

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gr6DA TIL, that in the US, President Lincoln made the first federal observance of Thanksgiving on August 6, 1863. The holiday was changed to the last Thursday in November a few months later.
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