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TIL the Hershey’s Kiss Christmas bells commercial has run every year since 1989

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oPkE TIL that the woman who spearheaded a landmark church and state separation lawsuit in 1963 was kidnapped, held captive for months, and eventually murdered when she was in her 70s, along with her son and granddaughter.
nWJkB TIL that Execution by Electric Chair was almost called "gerrycide" after the grandson of the guy who gerrymandering is named after.
P1Qjn TIL that Pythagoras was not the first in record to come up with the idea that the Earth is round due to the shape of the moon. It is not known if Pythagoras actually said this. This is a clerical error made by Thomas Heath in 1915, and has been perpetuated by BBC, NASA and Encyclopedia Britannica.
KYdaa TIL The University of Zurich has a wax museum of diseased body parts. Models date from the 19th century and depict all sorts of skin diseases, skin cancer, sexually transmitted diseases used for teaching and educating the public
neDDY TIL children’s writer and cartoonist Shel Silverstein worked for Playboy Magazine in the 1960’s