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TIL that a ‘dad’ is the tenth most popular Christmas list request for children, despite most of the top requests being desires for material possessions

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E1oO7 TIL nuclear weapons testing artificially altered the proportion of the carbon isotopes in the atmosphere, making radiocarbon dating after 1945 likely to be unreliable.
b6OE0 TIL American paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade mistakenly raided a working olive oil factory in Bulgaria as part of a large-scale joint exercise with NATO forces.
lVaK TIL the USDA has given $130 million to Planet Aid, an organization that claims it is helping poor African farmers, but is actually ran by a cult-leader who is hiding out in Mexico in a $20 million condo from the Danish government. Instead of helping, the cult makes the farmers pay from their salary.
jkaM TIL a UK girl was accused of lying about being raped and arrested. The detectives sent in her shirt for DNA testing six months later and found evidence to convict the guy she’d originally accused. She was awarded £20,000.
oRk08 TIL Emperor Keikō, the 12th Emperor of Japan, was according to tradition 10 feet 2 inches (310 cm) tall, had at least 80 children from multiple wives and lived 143 years.