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TIL that Brenda Lee was 13 years old when she recorded "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree"

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v1wMx TIL that CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and stepped in to perform emergency surgery on US soldiers and Iraqi civilians while reporting on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and on a 12 year old Haitian girl while reporting in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
adLJ TIL Homeland Security convinced a man to fly to Puerto Rico to try and dig up $1M worth of cocaine that he’d heard was buried there. After he was unsuccessful (twice) they just dug it up themselves and arrested him when they tried to give it to him.
R7yda TIL the Japanese government gave elderly people discounts on ramen if they surrendered their drivers license.
D1dbe TIL that for his book 11/22/63 Stephen King conducted considerable research and extensively studied various conspiracy theories regarding the JFK assassination. He ultimately dismissed them and came to the conclusion that Oswald acted alone
epp16 TIL healthy male chimpanzees can be as little as 0.002% bodyfat. Females range from less than 1% to 8%.