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TIL Shirley Temple stopped believing in Santa when she visited a mall Santa and he asked for her autograph

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L1mZ TIL that the aluminum “gear” recently found in a 300 Million yr old piece of Russian coal is not the first ancient artifact of the type discovered.
78OQx TIL the next periodical emergence of the 13- and 17-year cicada broods is 2024. The last time these insects co-emerged was 221 years ago while Thomas Jefferson was president.
MPD0 TIL Jacqueline Kennedy wore her blood-splattered pink Chanel suit for the rest of the day after JFK’s assassination. When asked to change her outfit, she replied “I want them to see what they have done to Jack.”
vPGE8 TIL that at the age of 56, Teddy Roosevelt Jr. was the oldest man and the only general to land by sea with the first wave of troops on D-Day.
eoyJ TIL trains were invented before bicycles