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TIL That we kiss under the mistletoe to honour Balder, the Norse God, and brother of Thor.

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GJRQ TIL that the total size of the Google Earth database is over 20 Petabytes.
ORRa TIL of Manaus, a Brazilian city of 2 million people deep in the Amazon Rainforest. It was once a notoriously extravagant rubber boom town in the 1800s. An opera house was built with European marble & crystal. One visiting opera troupe had half of its performers die from yellow fever in one season.
KrrB TIL for $170 per person per year, a hotel mogul turned around a rough Orlando neighborhood - cutting crime in half, multiplying property values and raising the high school graduation rate from 25% to nearly 100% by offering to pay full tuition for anyone who graduated and wanted to attend college.
V4Wk TIL of James Price, an 18th century chemist/alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into gold. When challenged to perform the conversion for a second time in front of credible witnesses, he instead committed suicide by drinking cyanide.
yBOv TIL that in 2011, 22 fake Apple stores were uncovered in just one Chinese city.