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TIL about Salzburg’s Krampus Parade, where people dress as terrifying ‘Krampuses’ to roam the streets in December, an old Alpine tradition tied to St. Nicholas.

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NXXy8 TIL of The Roc, a giant mythological bird from the Middle Eastern folktale Sinbad the Sailor, is thought to be a "distorted account" of the now-extinct, giant flightless Elephant Bird that once lived in Madagascar.
XEL08 TIL Windows 10 desktop wallpaper is actual photo and not just CGI picture
9YVx6 TIL that the only document with the taste of Cyanide written is the Suicide Note of an Indian Goldsmith who killed himself in 2006 by mixing a pinch of it in his liquor. He wrote “Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid."
LQmmp TIL that in 2001 NASA commissioned boy band Natural to write a song about space in an effort to reach a younger audience. The band was to undergo astronaut training in order to perform in space when astronaut Will McCool, who the band teamed up with, died onboard the Columbia space shuttle in 2003.
x60w TIL Pablo Picasso was going to brothels by the age of 13.