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TIL that there is a town in Michigan called Hell– and that anyone can be the mayor of Hell for a day by simply answering six questions.

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4XY0g TIL for much of the 1800s in the UK, Sunday and Monday were the unofficial weekend, with Sunday for Church and Monday being adopted by workers as an unofficial holiday, mockingly called "St. Monday" (like a religious holiday). By the late 1800s, Monday became a workday, and Saturday a half workday.
e7Ln TIL Coke was for white customers only, while Pepsi was marketed to black customers
YpmWA TIL the painting "The Scream" was painted with a red sky accurately depicting the Norwegian sky at the time caused by the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia.
gr5A9 TIL that when an apiary needs a new queen the farmer can't just put one in or the bees may kill her because she smells unfamiliar, so what the farmers do is lock the little queen in a cage with a door made of sugar, so that by the time the workers eat enough sugar for her to leave they are familiar.
v1Ax4 TIL astronomer Harlow Shapley firmly believed that there was only one galaxy in the universe but when he was presented with an evidence that disproved his view, he said "it destroyed his universe." Then he completely changed his view and devoted his subsequent career in mapping 76,000 galaxies.