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TIL when religion was suppressed in Soviet Russia, Santa/St. Nick was replaced with Grandfather Frost, called the spirit of winter, who brought gifts on New Year’s and placed them under the “New Year tree”

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kWQ4 TIL in Japan there is a family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1,300 years (founded in 705) or 46 generations
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