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TIL that there are two Saint Valentine’s and both are celebrated for Valentine’s Day.

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vpAR TIL Acme City whistle founder Joseph Hudson accidentally dropped his violin and it shattered on the floor. As the violin broke, it emitted a unique warbling sound and led him to an idea to putting a pea in a whistle. Pea whistles went on to replace policemen’s ineffective rattles for communicating.
RvW1 TIL Patrick Stewart, while he was going bald in his teens, believed no woman would ever be interested in him again, and gave up on the idea of love and relationships.
Kre6 TIL - Both of Jack Black’s parents were satellite engineers, his mother having worked on/with the Hubble Space Telescope
NJ1M TIL in the original 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, the Emerald City isn’t actually green; the Wizard requires everyone inside to wear green tinted glasses to make them think it is
0jkL TIL a judge in Michigan held himself for contempt of court.