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TIL that NORAD tracks the big jolly man that is Santa Claus and also provides a couple facts about him and his sled

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xZYo TIL the FDA prohibits products from being packed in containers deceptively larger than what they contain. (Potato chips are exempt because the extra air protects them from being crushed.)
DkPp TIL of the Battle of Saragarhi, in which 21 Sikh Soldiers faced over 10,000 Afghans, and killed 600 of them, whilst facing certain death
v1VZj TIL that Kelly Clarkson didn't want to win American Idol because the winner was contractually bound to make a musical rom com.
mnAp TIL the only compromise for censoring the cover of Nevermind that Kurt Cobain would accept was a sticker covering the baby’s penis that would say, “If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile.”
BrAXW TIL that the cleanest things ever made on Earth were the core sample collection tubes for the Perseverance Rover which landed on Mars earlier this year to find life there.