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TIL that Silver Bells, White Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and other famous Christmas songs were written by Jewish songwriters

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0B0y TIL In 2013, a woman got furious at Target for naming the color of her plus-size dress “Manatee gray” while the regular-size dress was called “dark heather gray”. Target changed the color name and issued an apology.
6LdW TIL The word Anaconda originated from tamil. anai-kondra meaning elephant killer
X01JR TIL that it can take up to a week to scan a 90 minute film negative in 4K resolution.
wxYE TIL Heroin was made popular in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company. They advertised Heroin as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough suppressant.
Xxp8 TIL that elephant dung is being converted into odor-free paper to benefit the elephants of Sri Lanka.