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TIL I learned the 1994 movie title 'The Santa Clause' is a pun and not the correct spelling of "Santa Claus."

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WkdQN TIL George Washington quarantined his troops during a smallpox outbreak, and several of his retreats can be attributed to his desire to avoid smallpox
xRDo TIL During the Korean War, A battalion of 200 U.S. troops, thought to de dead, emerged from behind enemies lines, led to safety by a 10 yr old South Korean boy. The boy was installed as unit mascot.
bQkp TIL that divers in 1900 discovered an ancient Greek shipwreck with an odd-looking bronze device on board. The device was later determined to be the world’s oldest analog computer, dating back to the 1st century B.C.E., thousands of years before similar technologies would be re-discovered
69l68 TIL about semantic and episodic memory. Semantic memory refers to general knowledge while episodic memory refers to past events and experiences. That is why you can remember what keys are and how they operate (semantic), but not where you put them (episodic).
VR8D TIL that the battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War was lost… Due to Tootsie Rolls. A codereader mistook the code for mortar shells (“snacks”, they were called), and literally sent hundreds of crates of Tootsie Rolls to the marines who were out of mortar rounds.