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TIL telling ghost stories was a Victorian Christmas tradition that has largely disappeared but survives in "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and "A Christmas Carol"

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wLlNY TIL That in 2018 Bubba Wallace became NASCAR's first full-time African-American driver since Wendell Scott in 1971.
ANOMn TIL that after leading a peasant revolt in Hungary in 1514, György Dósza was punished by being chained to a heated iron throne and had pieces of flesh torn off by hot pliers. His followers were then forced to eat him alive by biting the spots where the pliers were inserted and to swallow his flesh.
Yykv TIL Iraq used to have one of the worlds largest marshes until Saddam drained them into a desert
a1mM TIL when Robert Downey Jr was eight, his father offered him drugs, which led him to a long life of substance and alcohol abuse. RDJ credits Mel Gibson with helping him get sober and narcotic free.
YvGG TIL The CIA ran a study of LSD that lasted over 20 years and ruined many civilian lives