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TIL that Peter Billingsley, the actor behind the iconic role of Ralphie in “A Christmas Story,” also appears in the Christmas movie classic “Elf.”

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ANGM4 TIL during the Victorian age, women appreciated the beauty that tuberculosis caused - the thin waist, pale skin, red lips and rosey cheeks of those affected. It became quickly a tuberculosis inspired trend - referred to as "Consumptive Chic" - that led women to intentionally contracting the disease.
G0V1 TIL of a man named James Howells who threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoin. The hard drive, currently under mountains of trash in a wales landfill is worth approximately $15 million.
lodv7 TIL about DOOMSCROLLING. The act of obsessively checking online news for updates, especially on social media feeds, with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that the feeling of dread from this negative.
v19bj TIL that a fumi-e was a likeness of Jesus or Mary which the religious authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected Christians to step on, in order to demonstrate that they were not members of the outlawed religion.
8aaEV TIL: Some people taste soap when they eat Cilantro.