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TIL Kanamara Matsuri (Penis Festival) is held in April at the Kanayama Shrine in the city of Kawasaki

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WVlX TIL When JFK was running for office in 1946, his father paid a man with the same name as his biggest opponent to run for election, thus confusing voters and taking votes away from the true opponent.
W7D54 TIL that Betty Crocker, the supposed author of the #1 best-selling cookbook of all time "Betty Crocker's Cookbook", is not a real person and is in fact a mascot created by General Mills.
4aW6 TIL, Today is the 150th anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to northern forces and the end of the American Civil War.
N7A6e TIL that the origins of the space shuttle program date back to Nazi Germany when the Nazis were considering developing a craft capable of dropping bombs on the US
XEkXE TIL the Bengal famine of 1943 saw the starvation deaths of at least two million Indians. Upon learning about the conditions Winston Churchill sent a telegram to ask why Ghandi hadn't starved.