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TIL in 1950 only 9 percent of American households had a television set, but by 1960 the figure had reached 90 percent.

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neRm7 TIL there is an eSports World Cup tournament for Microsoft Excel
v1jYD TIL the German folklore of Frau Perchta, a witch who would roam the German countryside for 12 days leading up to Christmas, leaving silver coins to good children and cut open the bellies and replace the organs of bad children with straw and pebbles.
kmQ7 TIL there is a city in Alaska called North Pole and a man whose legal name is Santa Claus sits on the city council
W7xoX TIL Cobra Commander from GI Joe appears in Transfrmers Generation 1 s3e23.
d8j4Z TIL that in 2001 a New York couple used a submersible to be married two and a half miles underwater, on the wreck of the Titanic