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TIL: The FBI investigated Bigfoot and publically released all of their records

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69vMQ TIL In Iceland, the tradition of Jólabókaflóð, or the "Christmas Book Flood," involves exchanging books on Christmas Eve and then spending the evening reading. This tradition stems from World War II when paper was one of the few commodities not rationed in Iceland.
a8p1N TIL it's possible for parents to select the gender of their baby using IVF.
e9eb TIL that monarchism is still active in France. Some want to bring back Napoleon’s family (Bonapartists) to rule; others prefer the original royal family (Legitimists and Orleanists).
6EW7W TIL During a Geneva summit in 1985 President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to pause the cold war and set differences aside in the case of an Alien Invasion
XYgE TIL shortly after finishing the filming of Zombieland, Woody Harrelson had an altercation with a TMZ photographer. His defense was that he was still in character and thought the cameraman was a zombie.