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TIL that General Electric in Schenectady, NY has the zip code 12345, and receives thousands of letters to Santa yearly from kids who guess Santa’s address. Employees there often use their breaks to write response letters.

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gGvX TIL A man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing and eating the last indochinease tiger in China
WgRo TIL that Halliburton was forced to pay only $200,000 in fines following the firm’s willful destruction of incriminating evidence relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
epOxE TIL that chickpeas and almonds contain almost as much protein as steak. This shows that a person can become strong on a vegan diet after all.
6ErBZ TIL of the "My Way Killings", a social phenomon in the Philipines where violence and murder often occur after someone performes Frank Sinatra's hit My Way on a Karaoke machine. At least 12 people have died from it.
EpZW TIL in The Beatles’ song “In My Life,” George Martin couldn’t play the piano as fast as the part he’d written. So, he played it an octave lower at half speed and just ran the tape back at twice the recording speed.