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TIL in 1927 Santa robbed a bank in Texas resulting in 100 people turning up outside the bank to shoot Santa.

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OxgL TIL that Joe Kennedy, sold all of his stock just before the 1929 market crash, because he knew something was wrong when a poor shoe shine boy was giving him investment advice.
NXOJ TIL that Clerks was originally rated NC-17 solely because of its graphic dialogue, until Alan Dershowitz (Harvard Law Professor and major civil rights advocate) convinced the MPAA to lower it to Rated-R
XAPQ TIL that tree frogs freeze in the winter and come back to life in the spring
eppWb TIL that from the European colonization of the Americas in 1492, to the US army’s last official campaign against the Indians on 1890; The Native’s population went from an estimated 60 million to 248 thousand
PLLO TIL Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov, shot himself because of Stalin’s harshness toward him, but survived. Afterwards, Stalin said “He can’t even shoot straight”