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TIL that Santa has a team of security elves that joint train with the U.S. Secret Service

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QJr8a TIL that a bug in the original civilization game caused Mahatma Gandhi to become an aggressive jerk that demanded lots of money and declared nuclear war. This glitch later became a deliberate part of his personality in later games.
pYyw4 TIL in 1862 John Langdon Down was the first to describe a distinct mental disability, calling it "Mongolism" due to his perception that children with it shared facial similarities. Now called Down Syndrome, was discovered in the 1950s to be caused by the presence a third copy of chromosome 21.
78Aer TIL The "Burly Brawl" scene (Agent Smith vs Neo) in the Matrix Reloaded cost $40 million
0dgAj TIL that Staci Keenan, who played the daughter in the 80s sitcom My Two Dads, got her law degree and is a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County
ne4aB TIL: some scientists believe that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has killed over one million people and health effects are still occurring, especially in children