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TIL Chinese versions of Santa Claus often are depicted as playing a saxophone

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4XYJR Fifty years ago today, air stewardess Vesna Vulovic plunged more than 33,000 feet from an exploding airliner, landed in a Czechoslovak mountain range, and survived. Subsequently, it was determined that Vulovic’s fall was the highest that a human has ever sustained without a parachute.
won68 TIL that the last soldier of the British Empire to die in WW1 was the Canadian George Lawerence Price who died two minutes before the end of the war.
GYvjE TIL that Bernard Hill is the only actor who has appeared in more than one of the three films that have earned 11 Oscars - Titanic and The Return of the King. The third is Ben-Hur.
gM0jy TIL we don't actually know what William Shakespeare looked like. All remaining portraits of him were produced after his death. There are no surviving written descriptions of what he looked like either.
lyr7 TIL The IMF estimates we subsidize big oil to the tune of $10 million per minute