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TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote and illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his kids every year from 1920 to 1943

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kOdW4 TIL movie frame rates were originally measured in feet of film per minute instead of in frames per second, which is where the term “footage” came from
aA6y TIL sleeping on the job is acceptable in japan. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people fake it to look committed to their job.
JbY4 TIL black pepper is actually a fruit
nW51B TIL that the Lincoln family is presumably extinct since the last known descendant died childless.
VMoA8 TIL NASA conducted a series of arduous tests on 11 deaf men to study the impact of motion sickness on astronauts after discovering that people who became deaf as a result of spinal meningitis didn’t suffer from motion sickness because of the impact of the illness on their inner ear physiology