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4XON6 TIL that "Xmas" is not an attempt to remove "Christ" from "Christmas", but rather a shortening to the Greek letter chi, which is the first letter in the Greek spelling of Christ.
wL08P TIL Pandora's box was actually a jar.
V018 TIL Joe Namath, being from a largely black community in Pennsylvania, attended the University of Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, and was often involved in fights with white teammates and other white southerners while defending African Americans.
yVgmM TIL: In Switzerland, one of the world's base jumping hotspots, every year 1 in 60 base jumpers die. (source in german)
j67Aj Today I Learned that a rare Panamanian tree fern can turn its dead leaves into functioning roots. When the fronds die and touch the ground, they regrow into nutrient-absorbing roots, effectively recycling themselves to survive in poor soil.