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TIL that, according to the Canadian Federal government, Santa Claus is a Canadian Citizen.

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v1Ao7 TIL Leonardo DiCaprio used to be a break dancer before he made it big as an actor. According to him he thinks he kept getting rejected by agents because he was a break dancer at the time and had crazy haircuts.
69o7W TIL: Thomas Midgley, the inventor, played an important role in introducing two environmentally disastrous products - leaded gasoline & chloro flouro carbons. At 51 he contracted polio and 4 yrs later he was strangled to death by the device he devised to allow him to get out of bed unassisted
WkZg9 TIL that elephants, known as one of the most intelligent species, are capable of recognizing their own dead and having some kind of grupal grief, as a funeral. They "mourn" their dead, showing curiosity, emotion and acting irregularly.
mGly TIL That when Soviet Archaeologists opened the Mongol conqueror Timor’s tomb, they found a message on the inside saying ‘Whosoever Disturbs My Tomb Will Unleash an Invader More Terrible than I.’ On that very same day, Nazi Germany commenced Operation Barbossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.
16Wn7 TIL that there is one boat for every 2.8 homes in Minnesota, and that Minnesota has 7% of all boats in the registered in the USA