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TIL December 12th is Ding-A-Ling Day – a day to call friends and family that you haven’t spoken to in a while.

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QJl1L TIL about Gurkha Corporal Dipprasad Pun, who single-handedly held his post against more than 30 Taliban fighters. He fired more than 400 rounds of ammunition, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine to thwart the assault on his checkpoint.
5JA9 TIL that at the North Pole it is whatever time you say it is.
nkrB TIL a 16 year-old Brooklyn teen pretended to be a subway conductor and drove a train for over 3 hours before getting caught.
GYnKQ TIL that there is a pink kryptonite that made Superman gay for an issue of Supergirl in 2003
DBr TIL 200,000 users signed up for AOL Dial-up internet access in 2011