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TIL the Hershey's holiday commercial "Christmas Bells" has aired every holiday season for the past 28 years

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QJR9 TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, women in Afghanistan studied to be doctors - Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan… | Foreign Policy
NXL0M TIL that Petra is a female black swan who made headlines between 2006 and 2008 for falling in love with a pedalo shaped like a swan on the Aasee, a lake in Münster, Germany. Reported missing in January 2009, she was finally found on another lake, this time with a partner of her own species.
grLa7 TIL A 15th-century chapel, said to have been visited by Joan of Arc, is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The chapel was relocated from France to Long Island in 1927. Then in 1966, the chapel was moved to the campus of Marquette University where it remains today.
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