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dAXQ TIL that Amy Poehler started a website to encourage girls to change the world by being themselves
5QJP TIL that Citizen once made a series of watches powered only by the temperature difference between the wearers skin and the ambient air.
W7ZZX TIL that in the 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore, Santa's reindeer were Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder, and Blixem. He later changed Blixem to Blitzen, but Dunder didn't become Donner until well after his death.
mmlp TIL in 2007, the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after being found outside the Embassy drunk, hands tied, wearing only a corset bondage gear, and with a cucumber inserted into his rectum. The police only discovered his identity after removing the ball gag from his mouth.
aOpN TIL the editors of Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule pipe their footage through a videocassette recorder, and then hit the machine to simulate jumpy synchronization, to give it that poor quality feel.