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TIL in 1931, Coca-Cola solidified the image of Santa Claus as a fat old white man. Prior, he was thought to be a little creepy elf/gnome-like man.

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9la6 TIL there are ancient Asian shipwrecks in Washington state. Bonus TIL: When explorers travelled the Columbia River, they found Japanese sailors
AD86w TIL Princeton's Roger Nelson PhD proposes that human consciousness affects the variance in randomness of hardware-based random number generators. Since 1998, Nelson's Global Consciousness Project uses a global network to create random data over time, which is then associated with real-world events.
Z85lR TIL The first computer virus 'Creeper System' (1971) was an experimental self-replicating program. It was not designed to cause damage, but left a message "I'm the creeper: catch me if you can". It moved between mainframe computers on ARPANET (US Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
VMEo4 TIL A Swedish sailor shipwrecked on an island inhabited by cannibals. He was captured and taken to a local king, whose daughter fell in love with him. He married, had nine children with her, and became the king after his father-in-law.
pvGp TIL a “moment” is a medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.