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TIL “It’s a Wonderful Life” only became popular because tv stations could play it for free during Christmas season.

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ADlbw TIL that a medically sound symptom for having a mismatched blood transfusion is an immediate sense of impending doom.
ANYOx TIL a single 612 pound(278 kg) bluefin tuna sold for 333.6 million yen ($3.1 million) at a 2019 auction in Japan. This doubled the previous record of 155 million yen, set in 2013.
AEnd TIL of a war memorial for animals in London. It is inscribed “They had no choice”.
W7AJd TIL that on the 13 January 2018, Hawaii mistakenly broadcast a statewide emergency alert on TVs and radio warning of an incoming ballistic missile due to a training error.
xVVgb TIL of Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, a baseball pitcher and Hall of Famer who, in 1886, became the first person to be captured on camera giving the middle finger