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TIL that St. Nicholas of Myra, upon whom Santa Claus is based, is the patron saint of prostitutes

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wL9EM TIL that on the last Saturday of every month, all Rwandans are required by law to “come together in common purpose” to clean up their community, in a national holiday called Umuganda
Opj7 TIL that the WWI Native American code talkers lacked words for modern-day military terms. They used “big gun” for artillery, “little gun shoot fast” for machine gun, “stone” for grenade and “scalps” for casualties, etc.
VoY0 TIL in 1984 an contestant made it onto the game show Press Your Luck. He discovered using his stop-motion VCR that the presumed random patterns of the game board were not random and memorized the sequences. On the game he was on, he won 45 consecutive spins. winning $110,237 in cash & prizes.
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