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TIL Santa’s Postal code in Canada is “H0 H0 H0”

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LQO7d TIL that a 1963 Television western series, "The Dakotas" (starring Jack Elam and Chad Everett), was cancelled almost overnight after viewers called in complaining about a scene in the most recent episode where a lawman murdered two outlaws in a church
8eGG TIL Taking ALL the earnings of people making over $1,000,000 would still leave us with a yearly deficit.
JY7RQ TIL during the filming of the Lord of the Rings, Christopher Lee (a WW2 veteran) corrected director Peter Jackson on the right noise a person who got stabbed in the back and die would make: it's not an "argh" scream, but an "uh" because "the breath is driven out of your body". (Video starts at 0:10)
W7NNY TIL Click languages are a group of languages found only in Africa in which clicks function as normal consonants. The sole report outside Africa of a language using clicks involves the special case of Damin, a ritual vocabulary of the Lardil of northern Queensland, Australia.
Wkx1X TIL Jerry Springer was on the Cincinnati City Council from 1971-75 but resigned after being caught buying a hooker. He won his seat back by a landslide in 1977 due to his honesty and went on to serve a year as the mayor and attempted a run for Governor.