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TIL that USPS launched a site that allows you to adopt wish lists/letters to Santa from low-income children.

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R5YeQ TIL Silbo Gomero is a whistled register of Spanish (a variety of language), that is used by inhabitants of La Gomera, in the Canary Islands. It wasused to communicate across deep ravines and valleys. In 2009, UNESCO declared it a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
j6gpX TIL that a British married couple survived almost 4 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a rubber raft. They survived drinking rainwater and eating raw fish and birds.
nWMjb TIL that the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum has estimated that more than 6,000 ships and 30,000 lives have been lost in the Great Lakes. In fact: between 1816 to the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, the Whitefish Point area alone has claimed at least 240 ships.
woNQ8 TIL the Powerpuff Girls was originally called "Whoopass Stew"
78rdM TIL Public DNA records can be used to find distant relatives of criminals, from which investigators can build a family tree and catch said criminals