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TIL that Saint Nicholas (the saint who helped shape Christmas into what it is today) is featured in a tale in which he raises the dead after encountering an evil innkeeper who chopped up three small boys and pickled them in a large barrel

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GAaL1 TIL that the United States still operates its last official “mule mail” route, where mail is delivered by pack mules to the remote village of Supai in the Grand Canyon the only place in the country where mail is carried in and out by animals every day
epp0g TIL that some male octopuses set up dens next to female octopus dens and have sex without leaving the den by extending the mating arm from one den to another. They copulate repeatedly.
kZa1 TIL that the crew of the Apollo 15 moon mission took 398 unauthorised postage stamp covers to the moon with them, with the intention of selling 100 of them to a German stamp dealer who provided them. When discovered, NASA re-assigned all the astronauts involved to non-flight roles.
XvxP TIL A New York ad agency tried marketing laundry detergent to Arab consumers through the use of sequential pictures showing laundry being cleaned. However, the advertisers didn’t realize Arabic was read from right to left and their ad actually depicted the detergent soiling the clothing after wash
QN7AM TIL That Palm Trees Are Both Vegetable And Fruit Plants, The Fruit is The Dates/Coconuts, And The Vegetable is Their Edible Core Called The "Heart of Palm", as Palm "Trees" Are Not Real Trees, As They Don't Contain Wood