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TIL a Google search for Festivus displays an aluminum pole next to the results list

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EgMw7 TIL the first Polish settlers arrived in Jamestown in 1608 - twelve years before the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts. They were skilled artisans brought by Captain John Smith. In 1619, they were not given voting rights and so led a strike, which is the first documented labor protest in the U.S.
56r TIL during WWII, 12000 conscientious objectors served the government without pay. Their many jobs included smokejumping into forest fires, being human test subjects, and working at mental hospitals, where their pacifist approach revolutionized the way mental patients were treated.
QQXa TIL that John Murtha, a sitting congressman til his death in 2010, was one of the corrupt politicians targeted in the sting on which American Hustle was based, and he was never prosecuted
OwZY TIL that General Robert E. Lee opposed monuments to the Confederacy and wanted people to move on
neDLo TIL that even though actor Fred Gwynne considered Herman Munster one of his favorite roles, the costume (including 40 lbs of foam padding and boots with inflexible soles) caused him severe back pain and made him lose 10 lbs in one month via perspiration.