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TIL Christmas is often spelled Xmas because the Greek letter Chi (χ) is used to abbreviate the name Christ.

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OomGY TIL that Russia built a computer that ran on water in 1936
J5nk TIL La Cucaracha is about a cockroach that dies because it can’t smoke weed.
OXpa TIL The very first attempted assassination of a United States president was stopped when then President, Andrew Jackson, beat his assailant brutally with a his cane before being stopped by a nearby congressmen.
R7WO6 TIL A prison in the UK had to change every lock because a news program showed keys on live TV
BZ7D TIL that during WWII, actress Veronica Lake changed her image in order to encourage women working in factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles, even though doing so may have harmed her career.