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TIL that Chris Rock faced heat for dropping a truth bomb about Christmas “Now, I don’t know Jesus, but from what I’ve read, Jesus is the least materialistic person to ever roam the Earth. And we turned his birthday into one of the most materialistic day of the year.”

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O8Pe TIL that Big Bird has a Teddy bear named Radar. This is a tribute to actor Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly in MASH a character who was known for his teddy bear companion. Burghoff was also an activist for bird preservation.
woZN1 TIL NASA didn't expect Skylab to deorbit until the early 80s, and made plans to revisit the space station with the shuttle, boost it to a higher orbit, and expand it through the decade. Atmospheric drag from increased solar activity in the late 70s brought it down sooner than anticipated.
4kNDN TIL - Vacuum Microelectronics is a field of study, to shrink old-fashioned vacuum tubes used in radios and TV's prior to the 60's, down to a sub-millimeter size.
rRPW TIL that the Danube River is classified as ‘international water’ so that landlocked Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia and the southern parts of Germany can have secure access to the Black Sea.
1RNW TIL that in 1914, at the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a manservant at the residence became deranged, setting half the house ablaze; he then went on to murder seven people with an axe as the fires burned. Among the dead were Wright’s mistress and her 2 children.