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TIL To visit every child in the world, Santa Claus would need to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound

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4oW6 TIL that MSG has received a wrongful bad rap, and likely isn’t dangerous as a food additive.
d8GxQ TIL an American in the early 1900s dredged the Sacred Cenote in Chichén Itzá and illegally smuggled to the US nearly 30,000 Mayan artifacts found at the bottom of the cenote. The bulk of the find is in a storage room in the Peabody Museum at Harvard.
yoYv TIL during the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, Herodotus recorded the first case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when a Greek named Epizelus became permanently blind without being hit.
m4oE TIL in Greek Mythology, the God ‘Phosphorus’ represented the planet Venus, or the 'Morning Star’, as the Bringer of Light. The Latin translation of Phosphorus is Lucifer.
PYKPe TIL A backwards message was inserted into the B-52’s album “Bouncing Off the Satellites.” In the last 30 seconds of the track "Detour Thru Your Mind," Fred Schneider says, "I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you're playing the record backwards. Watch out, you might ruin your needle."