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TIL as late as the 1850s, Santa Claus was said to deliver gifts on New Year’s Eve instead of Christmas Eve in many parts of America & Europe — ultimately, the widespread popularity of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” helped solidify Christmas Eve as the date

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KAR6 TIL that, initially, the Roswell UFO incident was almost immediately dismissed and forgotten until The National Enquirer ran a story on it in 1980.
0lpA TIL that the word “man” was originally gender neutral and “wer” and “wif” were used to describe males and females respectively. This is where the words like “wife” and “werewolf” are derived from.
R7Wya TIL magenta doesn’t exist in nature. It’s created by the mind.
d8Z8E TIL of Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos. When ordered by the occupying Nazis to compile a list of Jews resident on the island, he handed over a piece of paper with a single name on it; his own.
xVAd5 TIL a plane landed so softly it broke the landing gear