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TIL I learned about Herschel "Woody" Williams. The last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient.

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LkQjV TIL NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia banned pinball in the 1940s as gambling that emptied the "pockets of schoolchildren in the form of nickels and dimes given them as lunch money". All pinball machines were rounded up and smashed dramatically by the mayor, before being dumped into city rivers.
oRvar TIL that Rotten Tomatoes ‘Fresh’ % is not the average score of a movie/show, but just how many critics gave it at least 3/5 stars. So better movies do occasionally have lower Fresh % than worse movies.
EmMw TIL the original War on Christmas was waged in New England during the early days of America. Due to Puritan beliefs of the region, Christmas was illegal in the mid 16 hundreds because it espoused “Pagan” traditions. It still remained culturally taboo until the 1870’s.
oB6mr TIL that the Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful betting scheme played out at an Irish racetrack in 1975. The elaborate operation was eventually deemed legal, netting over 300K Irish pounds for Barney Curley and his team. Angry bookies paid out in over 100 bags of single bills.
xVpW1 TIL the Wright Bros. famous first flight at Kitty Hawk actually took place on an island off North Carolina