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TIL about Timber Dick, a Denver based Inventor who passed away in 2008, was roommate to former ambassador to Denmark Dick Swett and was survived by 11 children

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Y1bA TIL In 1973, with the government-wide panic caused by Watergate, the CIA Director ordered all MK-Ultra files destroyed… A cache of some 20,000 documents survived, as they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building and were discovered following a FOIA request in 1977.
6ZZW TIL as eclipses can be mathematically calculated, the eclipse of May 28, 585 BC, which stopped a battle in Greece, was said by Isaac Asimov to be the earliest human event known to the exact date and time.
9YLDB TIL The modern “Western” depiction of Santa Claus can be traced back to a 1931 Coca-Cola advertising campaign.
xVp85 TIL Hermilio Valdizán who was considered the founder of psychiatry in Perú die because of his goodness. On December 25th, 1929, he send home all the medical staff so they could enjoy Christmas. Sadly he has an angina problem and due to lack of doctors, he dies that night.
VMmk TIL that production of ALF was hell on earth with 20-hour-shoots for one episode. On the last day of shooting lead actor Max Wright (Willie Tanner) walked off set without saying goodbye.