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TIL that there is a bookstore in Portland, Oregon that takes up an entire city block

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YpWd7 TIL Coca-Cola marketing is partly responsible for the modern depiction of Santa Claus. Illustrator Haddon Sundblom drew Santa for a 1931 Coke ad in The Saturday Evening Post. His drawing was inspired by the 1822 poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (commonly called 'Twas the Night Before Christmas').
MMMB TIL male rape doesn’t exist as a criminal offense under UK law. When a male is raped, it is recorded as “non consensual buggery”.
gMWN8 TIL the same apple tree from which an apple fell and supposedly hit Isaac Newton, inspiring his theory of gravity, is still growing at his family home over 350 years later
RaB9 TIL there is a medicine being developed that will not only cure the common cold, but pretty much any viral infection you could get, including possibly HIV. (Why can’t we fast-track this research?)
VMro0 TIL That termite queens are the longest living insect on the planet. Living on average up to 15 years with some scientists suggesting they can live up to 50-100 years old.