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TIL that a 95-year-old war veteran saved his abandoned village in Taiwan from demolition by covering the entire settlement with colorful painted-characters. "Rainbow Village" is now a protected cultural site and tourist destination.

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DQnMY TIL about the Inauguration of the last Russian Tsar. Over 1,200 peasants were killed in a crowd crush event caused by Tsar Nicholas II offering a crowd of 500,000 beer and pretzels to win their approval at his inauguration. In response to the tragedy, the Tsar attended a private gala the same night.
KMyJ TIL Owsley Stanley, the soundguy for the Grateful Dead, was the first person to mass produce LSD, distributing over 1.25 million doses in just two years.
GADEE TIL that Billy Joel doesn't sell front row seats to ensure that true fans are front and center. He randomly gives those seats away to cheap seat ticket holders so that the front row is not only filled with wealthy individuals.
6EX5Z TIL After North Korea banned Choco pies, South Korea airlifted 10,000 of them across the DMZ with balloons
kJdLg TIL the nativity story only appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and both give very different accounts. Luke alone mentions the adoration of the shepherds, while Matthew alone mentions the arrival of the Magi, which leads to the massacre of the innocents.