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TIL that the Canonical Hours, the Christian divisions of the day for regular prayers, originated in Jewish prayer customs.

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QJ1Gp TIL that despite selling 30 million albums and having 9 top ten hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival were only together for four years.
grv18 TIL the first balloons were made out of animal bladders and “balloon animals” were made out of animal intestines
P1OeG TIL that the swedish word for conducting invesigative journalism is named after the german invesigative journalist Günter Wallraff
GYpGg TIL in 2014, a small Japanese village tried to set up a monument to remember the WW2 Korean slaves that died in the region, but were forced to stop by Japanese ultranationalists. These ultranationalists have also been successful in the removal of other monuments of contrition around Japan.