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TIL St. Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy.

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b9V0Z TIL that there was a Confederate Army brigadier general with the given name "States Rights"
gr8W TIL that one of Google’s data centers is completely cooled by sea water from the Gulf of Finland.
e0GxJ TIL that the town of Times Beach, Missouri had to be completed evacuated in 1985 and demolished in 1992, at the order of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, due to its soil being contaminated by dioxin
yVJJe TIL about Gung Haggis Fat Choy, a cultural event originating from Vancouver. The event originated to mark the coincidence of the Scottish cultural celebration of Robert Burns Day (25 Jan) with the Chinese New Year, but has come to represent a celebration of combining cultures in untraditional ways
QJXeL TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.