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TIL Jingle Bells was originally called “The one horse opened sleigh” and was written as a Thanksgiving or Drinking song.

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jdyn TIL someone edited professional wrestler Chris Benoit’s wikipedia page to include the death of his wife 14 hours before police discovered her body
16e5V TIL of the YE-ZB radio navigation equipment. It was used during WW2 by the US Navy aircraft like the hellcat and corsair to find their way home to their aircraft carriers. It worked by emitting morse code the pilot could use to determine course, with intensity corresponding to distance.
xVwNk TIL that at his insistence (citing that it would be "blood money"), all royalties from Schindler's List, that would normally have gone to Steven Spielberg instead are given to the Shoah Foundation which records and preserves written and videotaped testimonies from survivors of genocide worldwide.
PYPdJ TIL James Bond was originally half Scottish half Swiss. Also Flemming named him after an ornithologist as it was the "simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name".
ANOBg TIL mushrooms can talk to each other. And they hate Mario