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TIL that in pre-Norman England, Father Christmas, originally wore a green suit with a long green hooded cloak, as well as a wreath made of holly, mistletoe or ivy which represented the coming spring.

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67dm TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.
Gd44 TIL Three years before Robert E. Lee was born, his mother, Anne Hill Carter, was thought to have died from yellow fever, and was placed in the family vault until a caretaker heard a faint voice coming out of the coffin three days later.
9wJgm TIL - one of the top songs in 1972/3 was by Loudon Wainwright III, son of a WW2 correspondent, called “Dead Skunk” (in the middle of the road)
loE0r TIL green tea, black tea, oolong tea all come from the same plant. The only difference is the oxidization level of the leaves.
QmrE TIL An innocent man spent 19 years in jail until they found his doppelganger living in the same town with the same first name