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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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MweB TIL there is an Israeli Army Unit that specifically recruits teens with autism. ‘Unit 9900’ is described as a 'selective intelligence’ squad, where heightened perceptual skills are considered an asset.
R7oX9 TIL in Jan 2011, a pilot mistook Venus for an oncoming aircraft and sent his plane into an emergency dive to avoid a midair collision.
8aAGL TIL: In many Celtic traditions, mead, which is an alcoholic drink made from fermented honey, imparts a significant role, and in Celtic lore, its people believed that the drink would bring them immortality. This led them to impart a law that protects the bees from any harm.
kOXe7 TIL that after Lorena Bobbit cut her husband's penis off, he went to star in a porn film directed by Ron Jeremy: 'featuring a post-surgery John Wayne Bobbit as Frankenpenis, a castrated man who had a "super penis" sewed onto him in an experiment'.
XRWj TIL that the drug company Bayer bought Auschwitz prisoners to be used as research subjects for testing new drugs.