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TIL “Jingle Bells” was originally written to be a Thanksgiving song.

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9Y7nD TIL largest offshore gas platform - Troll A, It stands almost 500 meters tall and weighs 656,000 tons - it's one of the biggest man-made objects ever towed
nMQG TIL someone used Super Mario Maker to build a level that is a functional calculator, though it can only add two digits between zero and 7 and takes about two minutes to generate an answer.
woEEP TIL: The Shanghai Marriage Market is held at the People's Park on weekends where parents of unmarried children gather and trade their children's information with other parents to find a match. It has existed since 2004 and in 2013 it cost $3.20 for an ad there and marriage brokers charge a $16 fee.
m1lgx TIL Mozart was actually in the top 5% of wage earners for his time. He squandered most of his money by the time of his death, and was buried in a pauper's grave.
8axOG TIL there was a funded study on impact of piracy on sales which results were withheld by EU presumably due to finding no negative impact