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

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GAAZj TIL The "alarm chemical" released by bees to make the hive attack (Isopropyl Acetate) is the same favouring we use to make banana flavoured sweets, meaning bees can become hostile around those sweets
D7Wj TIL that the purchase of Alaska from Russia by the U.S. was originally mocked by U.S. citizens, who called it “Andrew Johnson’s polar bear garden”
x6M9b TIL that when Borland needed a name for a new software product, developers wanted to call it "Delphi". Marketing wanted "AppBuilder". A few months before release, Novell shipped its own "AppBuilder", preventing that name's use. The developers got their wish and the company announced Borland Delphi.
1pbW TIL Occam’s razor is not “the simplest answer is usually correct”, it’s “the answer that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct”.
165YX TIL about how the CIA faked a vampire attack in a psy-op campaign against Philippino communist rebels.