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TIL Nearly all of the most popular Christmas songs including ‘Winter Wonderland’, 'Chestnuts roasting…’, and 'I’m Dreaming of a white Christmas’ Were written by Jews

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DwMJ TIL in March 1945 almost all the wealth stolen by the Nazis was found sealed in a Mine. There was so much gold, it took until 1998 before it was all redistributed.
mgLo TIL that in 1869, Wyoming was the first state to pass a bill allowing women to vote. Why was such a random state so progressive? At that time there were 6 adult men for every 1 adult woman living in Wyoming. The lonely men hoped to attract more women to the region by offering the right to vote.
m1r0M TIL that a woman named Violet Jessop survived three famous shipwrecks: the Titanic, the Britannic, and the Olympic.
VO0D TIL Vin Diesel is a huge fan of Dungeons & Dragons, having played it for over 20 years including nights off when he was a bouncer, and wrote the foreward to the commemorative book “30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons”.
ne5n7 TIL that in the California Condor Recovery Plan, researchers and breeders removed condor eggs and used condor puppets to raise and feed the chicks from those eggs. Parent condors would then lay more eggs to replace the taken eggs, thus increasing their reproductive rate.