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TIL Will Farrell worked as a mall Santa. That means someone has a childhood Christmas photo with Will Farrell Santa.

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4XWGb TIL about Maximilian I, the younger brother of Franz- Josef, the only Hapsburg monarch of Mexico. During the Franco-Mexican war, Napoleon III gave Maximilian a huge chunk of Mexico in 1864 and Maximilian made a lot of liberal reforms at the time. He was executed 3 years later.
4XGw TIL the original Pokémon themesong suggested looking for Pokémon “under the earth, under the clouds, and under that girl’s skirt…”
xdn1 TIL that North Korea had used ‘poo bombs’ - balloons carrying packages of used toilet roll, on South Korea. Military officials there were forced to open and check those 'packages’ for possible biochemical weapons.
VW8m TIL that during the Parsley Massacre, the Dominican soldiers would grab a parsley plant and ask what it was called. If the person couldn’t roll the R in the Spanish word (Perejil) they were executed. Up to 30,000 people might have been killed through that method.
woNNP TIL Smoking one large cigar is equivalent to smoking 15-20 cigarettes