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TIL Canada has a special postal code for Santa Claus’s address

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LkWeP TIL of a Jewish ballerina, Franceska Mann, who while stripping to go into the gas chambers, shot a German officer and wounded another.
epl76 TIL about St Innocent of the Orthodox Church. A Russian priest, he traveled to Alaska in 1823 to preach to the natives. He learned many languages and translated the Gospel into an Aleutian language and also for the Tlingits. Although he had a church, he mostly traveled by canoe to visit his parish.
ANDLd TIL the role of Judith in The Walking Dead has been played by at least 16 different actors
a5bA TIL British spies used semen as invisible ink during WWI and this method was invented by Sir Mansfield Cumming
4kB05 TIL the official short name of the Czech Republic is ‘Czechia’. The use of the short form "Czechia" has increased in web searches from less than 1% in 2015 to more than 16% in 2023.