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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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vPdND TIL The only current active duty ship in the US Navy to have sunk an enemy vessel in combat is the USS Constitution.
Z8KpD TIL About polymer banknotes, and how they're in general circulation in at least 30 countries. They were first developed in Australia to replace paper banknotes with a more secure and more durable alternative.
dDYV9 TIL that the first wind turbine was introduced in 1887 by a Scot called James Blyth. He offered to power the street lights of the village of Marykirk, near Aberdeen, using his 33ft turbine – the villagers refused and called it “the work of the devil.”
jZYM TIL that there is a malicious zip file on the internet that is only 42 kilobytes when compressed, but 4.5 petabytes when unzipped (that’s 4500 terabytes or 4,500,000 gigabytes!)