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TIL Canada formally awarded Santa Claus official citizenship and gave him his own postal code (H0H 0H0) so children can send him letters

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nea6r TIL The Legend of the Christmas Spider is an Eastern European folktale explaining tinsel on Christmas trees. A poor widow could not afford to decorate her tree. A spider covered it in cobwebs overnight. Morning sunlight turned the webs into gold and silver. They never lived in poverty again.
4rJN TIL perfume is located at the front of department stores in part because department-store pioneer Harry Selfridge placed his there to mask the odors of manure and exhaust from the street.
6gAY TIL that there is a Counterfeit Museum of Paris, where they display the most impressive and accurate knock-offs of popular goods.
9YBlm TIL when Clodius managed to gain admittance to a religious ceremony for women only to seduce Caesar's wife Pompeia. Caesar divorced her saying that "my wife ought not even to be under suspicion." And gave no evidence against Clodius during his trial.
GV5E TIL that Mumbai has an intricate food delivery system that picks up 200,000 hot lunches from wives or moms, delivers them to working men, then returns the containers home again same day.