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TIL That one month in lunar terms is called a "moonth' as it takes 29.53 days to orbit the earth

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DByp TIL There is an evil counterpart to Santa named Krampus. Krampus physically beats bad children before sacking them away to Hell.
9dNB TIL Yahoo gave the Chinese government access to the e-mail of two pro-democracy journalists who were subsequently imprisoned for 10 years for “incitement to subvert state power”.
rRxvW TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter.
NWKe TIL In 2005 Benedict Cumberbatch was abducted and held at gunpoint by armed men in South Africa. After being let go he was eventually rescued by a stranger. He commented: “It taught me that you come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life less ordinary.”
wLbg6 TIL that Allen Lichtman worked with V. Keilis-Borok in designing an exceptionally accurate model to predict wether or not the incumbent party retains the White House. He correctly called results of eight out of the past nine elections, including 2016. This month, he announced that GOP will lose