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TIL The modern “Western” depiction of Santa Claus can be traced back to a 1931 Coca-Cola advertising campaign.

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VMnv4 TIL The highest paid WNBA player makes 5 times less than the lowest paid NBA player
Ld4m TIL The Onion has been in existence for 26 years
ADRBo TIL The 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics went to Carl D. Anderson for the discovery of the positron. While a graduate student at Caltech in 1930, Chung-Yao Chao was the first to experimentally identify positrons through electron–positron annihilation, but did not realize what they were
bVpp TIL that Sir Archy, one of the first great American race horses, retired because “there were no opponents willing to race against him.” His offspring were also so successful that they were effectively banned.
O1RR TIL photojournalist Kevin Carter killed himself 3 mos. after winning the Pulitzer Prize because of the toll taken by the atrocities he had witnessed