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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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ANMB7 TIL In December 1941, Franklin Roosevelt became the first President to use an armored vehicle. Originally belonging to infamous gangster Al Capone, the car was seized by the Treasury Department in 1932 on an income-tax evasion charge.
5WlP TIL in 1999 EA had to recall 100,000 copies of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 as an EA employee hid an uncensored copy of South Park’s Jesus vs Santa episode on the PlayStation disc
d8M7 TIL that William H. Macy has been widely rumoured to own a large collection of boomerangs. Macy denies this and has no idea how the rumour was started.
Xj0P TIL Steve Crohn was one of the first studied cases of HIV immunity. His Immunity was due to a mutation in the CCR5 delta-5 receptor of CD4-t*cells, this prevented the virus from “entering” the immune cell. He committed suicide at the age of 66 after most of his friends died from the disease.
6r7J TIL the people of Sweden love Donald Duck so much, they had to make voting for him illegal.