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TIL: Christmas has deep pagan roots

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R75Za TIL Chinese President Xi Jinping's official title is: Innovative Leader, Center of the Party, Civil Servant who offers happiness, Strategist, Field Marshal who reforms army and national security, Leader of the Great Nation, Chief Designer of modernization in new era
Lwj0 TIL the Roman Emperor Caracalla slaughtered 20,000 Egyptians because they made a play mocking him
kaMg TIL that Robert Downey Jr. finally quit drugs in 2003 when his new girlfriend (now wife) gave him an ultimatum. She is unofficially known around Hollywood as the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey Jr.
9LO7 TIL there is a computer keyboard with buttons like “super”, “hyper”, and allows to type over 8000 different characters.
8ekmZ TIL a man named James Harrison had rare antigens for Rhesus disease. He donated plasma every week for 60 years and saved an estimated 2.4 million babies.