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TIL there is a place called whiskey dick, oregon

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7A57 TIL that the American Family Association demanded that Home Depot “stop supporting the gay agenda”. Unlike Lowe’s who bowed to AFA pressure a few months earlier, Home Depot refused and suffered an AFA boycott. During the next quarter, Home Depot’s profits increased by 6.1%.
RaNj TIL William Shakespeare may have helped translate part of the King James Bible.
rROe1 TIL Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 air traffic controllers in August of 1981 for failing to carry out their oath to never strike as employees of the US federal government.
9m9M TIL: The average GPA at Harvard is 3.65. This is more than a full point higher than the average GPA in 1950.
NX4eJ TIL about Li Xouying, who lived through the Massacre of Nanking. While 7 months pregnant, she fought off three Japanese soldiers who stabbed her 37 times; she survived and went on to advocate for the victims.