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TIL King Tammany Day was once a hugely popular holiday in America, even celebrated by George Washington and the Continental Army at Valley Forge

by whatilearned September 29, 2022, 3:29 pm

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TIL that the AFL Grand Final is a state holiday in Victoria

by whatilearned September 23, 2022, 8:18 pm

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My wife told me that sex is better on holiday

by cringeyjokesman September 23, 2022, 8:56 am

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TIL about today’s saint, Maximilian Kolbe, who offered his life in the place of a stranger in Auschwitz. The priest was martyred on the eve of the Catholic holiday of Mary’s Assumption. The man that Kolbe saved later attended Kolbe’s 1981 canonization ceremony.

by whatilearned August 14, 2022, 5:54 pm

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A photon went on holiday.

by cringeyjokesman August 12, 2022, 5:41 am

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TIL of ‘Newman Day’, an unofficial holiday at some US Colleges, including Princeton and Yale, in which students aim to drink 24 cans of beer in 24 hours. Based on an apocryphal remark by Paul Newman, about “24 hours in a day and 24 cans in a case”, the actor (an alcoholic) abhorred the ‘holiday’.

by whatilearned August 2, 2022, 8:28 pm

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TIL While managing an American minor league baseball team playing against the Havana Sugar Kings in 1959, the manager Frank Verdi was wounded by a stray bullet shot during celebrations for the 26th of July National Holiday. The game was called off and the American team fled Cuba.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 3:29 pm

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TIL about the July 27th Finnish Holiday National Sleepyhead Day. Which dictates that the last person sleeping in the house must be woken up with water or by being thrown in a body of water.

by whatilearned July 27, 2022, 12:48 pm

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TIL in 2002 while on holiday, Paleontologist Gerard Gierlinski accidentally stumbled upon what are thought to be the oldest human-like footprints ever discovered, dating to around 5.6 million years ago

by whatilearned July 8, 2022, 10:11 am

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Anyone remember when a holiday somehow managed to impregnate a month!?

by cringeyjokesman July 7, 2022, 12:00 am

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Is it a red flag if an SO puts no effort into your birthday/anniv./other special holiday? Why or why not?

by QuestionGuy June 30, 2022, 7:05 pm

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TIL Billie Holiday was arrested on drug charges in 1947 and tried in utterly bizarre circumstances. The prosecutor asked for leniency, while her defense attorney convinced her to plead guilty, assuring her she’d be sent to a hospital. Instead, the judge sentenced her to a year in federal prison.

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 12:03 am

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