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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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g5w4 TIL in July of 2004 actor Gene Hackman was asked by Larry King why he didn’t have any movies lined up. Hackman replied that he believed it was the end of his career. He hasn’t acted since.
p8DNG TIL There were only two groups in Sparta that could have their names inscribed in their tombstones: mothers who died giving life and soldiers who fell in battle.
vYwB TIL that MSG has not been found to cause any health problems
Rp46 TIL of Charlotte, a young girl who was experiencing 300 grand mal seizures a week until she was treated with marijuana. That specific strand is now called Charlotte’s Web.
e0XR5 TIL a 37 meter cat image was found etched on a hillside in Nazca, Peru. The feline geoglyph adds to 100s of Nazca geoglyphs made by removing surface rocks/earth to reveal contrasting earth. Discovered and restored just months ago, archaeologists say the big cat was first made between 200BC - 100 BC.