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TIL Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was written by Johnny Marks, a Jewish man who based the story on his own childhood and struggles as a small and shy underdog

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rJEw TIL in 2009, an Israeli woman accidentally threw away her mom’s mattress with $1 million dollars stashed inside
kxn4 TIL Edwin H. Armstrong the inventor of the FM radio committed suicide because he was spending 90% of his time on litigation against RCA who were trying to suppress the technology.
p8B7O TIL There is a paralyzed streamer who can play video games (like PUBG) by his mouth. His nickname is RockyNoHand. After an accident, he is paralyzed from the neck down. However, he continues to game and streams on Twitch. He plays by using his mouth to operate a quadstick controller.
78O4Z TIL Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, designer of the de Havilland Mosquito, was actress Dame Olivia de Havilland’s cousin.
x6ro5 TIL Ancient Greeks did not consider "1" to be a number, and the idea of doing so would be controversial for centuries afterwards.