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TIL the 12 days of Christmas refers to the 12 days following Christmas, not the 12 days preceding Christmas

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4E7a TIL the day before volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft died in a pyroclastic flow, Maurice’s last words were “I am never afraid because I have seen so much eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care”
b66y0 TIL: The purple blob McDonald's mascot Grimace is supposed to be an enormous taste bud.
MpRb TIL that touching baby birds will not cause mother birds to abandon them.
4kxlR TIL that, in video games, "ludonarrative dissonance" is the technical name for the conflict between the story told in the gameplay, and the story in the non-interactive scenes (for example, the way that Drake in "Uncharted" is a fun-loving rogue in the cutscenes but a killing machine in the game).
GYbAJ TIL that Pan Am jet “Clipper Climax” featured in the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Clipper Climax would later crash into a mountain in Indonesia as Pan Am Flight 812, killing everyone on board.