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TIL That there is a school of Santas! It is in Midland where men are taught sign language and other skills, for playing their character!!

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nWJgY TIL that Xerox scanners sometimes used to randomly substitute digits in scanned documents, e.g. turning 6s into 8s. The issue was discovered and fixed in 2013 but old scanners might still be affected.
KYGA9 TIL olympic sailor Francisco Gonzalez killed 44 people on a plane by shooting both the pilots
WMEN TIL the precursor to Monopoly was designed to illustrate how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants, and that when children play the game, it would “provoke their natural suspicion of unfairness.”
4lGJ TIL that when Ian McKellen, the actor who went on to play both Magneto and Gandalf, came out as gay in the ’80s, his aim was to get rid of a law in the UK called Section 28.
KOgn4 TIL in 1854 Commodore Perry gifted 110 gallons of American Whiskey to the Japanese emperor. That gift has since evolved into a $6 billion industry, with Japan's Suntory distillery winning 2015's World Whisky of the Year. Today, Suntory owns Jim Beam.