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TIL that many people consider Die Hard to be a Christmas movie.

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4k6B6 TIL In the Philippines, businesses are required to give rank-and-file employees a sort of mandatory Christmas bonus called "13th month pay", due on or before December 24th, which is equal to one month's basic pay, pro-rated for the time they've worked for the business.
1M0O TIL that The Golden Temple in India feeds a vegetarian meal to over 100,000 people a day regardless of race, religion and class.
LQ1PZ TIL that Iran offers the most government mandated time off with a total of 53 days
wooOE TIL that when Vincent Price agreed to do the voice work for Thriller he was given a choice between taking a percentage of the album proceeds or being paid a flat $20K. He chose the $20K
N7jre TIL: Ironically, the doctrine of papal infallibility (the pope officially has singular absolute final say on matters of church doctrine) dates only to 1870, around the time when the papacy permanently lost all its remaining temporal political power.