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TIL “head over heels” was originally “heels over head,” which makes a lot more literal sense

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PYW4O TIL the song 'So Here It Is Merry Christmas' can be sung in it's entirety with the lyrics 'Are You Hanging Up Your Stocking On The Wall?'.
yQNRp TIL That a mountaineer found a wallet in the Andes mountain range that belonged to passenger of the plane crash in 1972. Realising the owner had survived, the mountaineer returned in wallet to him in 2005, more than 30 years later.
J1Yyv TIL German WW1 fight pilot, “the Red Baron”, was pulled from wreckage by enemy forces, and ceremoniously buried, after being shot down 104 years ago
1ajk7 TIL that lacrosse is North America's oldest still-played sport, which was played by indigenous people in the 17th Century
Bx4d TIL of Dave Shaw. A deep-water diver who,while trying to break the world record for diving,found the body of another diver who had been missing for 10 years.