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TIL of the "Two Santas Strategy" that Republicans since Reagan use to both hinder Democrat investments and justify Republican tax cuts

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V94B TIL Tolkien didn’t mean to change the spelling of “Dwarfs” to “Dwarves”. He said it was a mistake that neither him nor his editors spotted.
R7498 TIL the oldest living Alligator, "Muja" in the Belgrade Zoo, not only survived WW2 (where the Belgrade zoo was almost totally destroyed) but also the 1999 NATO bombings during the war in Serbia, 54 years later. He is estimated to be at least 80 years old. But there are no records of his DOB.
VMXg8 TIL that the first woman elected to the US Congress was the only person to vote against the declaration of war against Japan on December 8, 1941
5Y0JQ TIL the internet in cuba is so bad that cubans had to invent their own
9YXOX TIL of Japan's "Okinoshima", an island off-limits to women. Access is only granted to 200 men for one day every year after they purify themselves in the surrounding sea.