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TIL Not only does Elmo the muppet have a father, but he's also a soldier who served in Iraq.

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B44r TIL in 1924, children playing on the banks of a river in Germany discovered a human skull. More bones were discovered, eventually leading to the arrest of Fritz Haarman, who was butchering humans and selling their flesh as pork.
5VKlk TIL Croagh Patrick, a mountain in Co. Mayo is one of Ireland’s most significant pilgrimage sites, where over 100,000 people climb the mountain annually, particularly on Reek Sunday, the last Sunday in July. The Archbishop of Tuam leads the climb each year.
9wlQD TIL that on Christmas Eve 1944, a group of lost and wounded US Soldiers and lost and tired German soldiers laid down their weapons and shared a meager holiday meal together. The story became the basis for the 2002 television movie "Silent Night."
YnDZ TIL While under contract to play James Bond, Pierce Brosnan wasn’t allowed to wear a tuxedo in any non-Bond film.
nWkRW TIL that 14 artists lent their voices as backup vocals on the song "All of the Lights"