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TIL Aluminum Christmas trees dropped in popularity after their negative portrayal in A Charlie Brown Christmas

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ApX4 TIL that South Africans call Traffic Lights “Robots”.
697GZ TIL about the WWII L4 Grasshopper plane named "Rosie the Rocketer" that it's pilot, Major Charles "Bazooka Charlie" Carpenter, had attached six bazookas to. It took part in the battle at Arracourt, forcing a tank column to retreat. He racked up 6 tank kills, including two Tigers.
Oogpe TIL 'Turritopsis dohrnii', the immortal jellyfish, is a species of small, biologically immortal jellyfish that lives forever. They never die of old age but transform themselves back into their juvenile state. It is the only known species that has figured out how to defeat death.
woNYP TIL that Prince Eugene of Savoy, regarded as one of the eight greatest military commanders ever by Napoleon, had six ships named after him, including the WW2 German cruiser Prinz Eugen
4XK6w TIL Buzz Aldrin, who landed on the moon in 1969, also became the oldest person to visit the South Pole at 86 years of age in 2016.