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TIL that you shouldn’t store a sleeping bag in the small stuff sack that comes with it, as it ruins the insulation.

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OXEe TIL: In 1919, Chicago Irish gangs in blackface attacked and burned Polish neighborhoods because the Poles weren’t racist enough against blacks.
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7XpZ TIL: The first 7 Aftrican Americans elected to Congress were all Republican
OZ6e TIL in 1833 a meteor shower occurred that was so intense that “the frequency of meteors was estimated to be about half that of flakes of snow in an average snowstorm.”
KYd5w TIL Public nativity scenes are often the victim of baby Jesus theft. Some churches have had to chain their baby Jesus down to deter theft while others have added GPS tracking to their baby Jesus.