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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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a8x9J TIL in 2006, a 4 year old boy in Power Ranger cosplay successfully stopped a robbery and saved his family
ENWP TIL US Senators can be physically forced to attend a vote. In 1988 a Senator “was carried feet-first into the Senate” by police, while another “fled down a hallway and escaped”.
R7oL9 TIL Apollo 11 landed on the moon just 66 years after the Wright Brother's first flight.
RZna TIL that facts don’t win arguments because of something called the ‘backfire effect’ in which “corrections actually increase misperceptions among the group in question.” Since your friend knows you and your opinions well, he or she does not view you as an all-knowing source of information.
xOX7 TIL that in 1954, a covert US operation overthrew a democratically elected government in Guatemala for the benefit of an American fruit company.