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TIL The NORAD Santa Tracker started as a typo in a Sears ad that listed the number to the RED PHONE at Air Defense Command as Santa’s Hotline and a Colonel that played along.

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DQo1r TIL: The last surviving widow of the American Civil War passed away in 2021. In 1936, 17 year old Helen Jackson secretly married 93 year old Civil War veteran James Bolin. He passed away just three years later. Helen would live to the age of 101.
WoMB TIL David Yost, who played Billy the blue Power Ranger, quit the show after frequent harassment from the crew for being gay
6xMm TIL in 458 BC Aeschylus, an ancient Greek tragedian, was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile.
x6N6b TIL the Solar System's tallest cliff face is 20 km (12 miles) on Miranda, the smallest moon around Uranus.
BrBvd TIL of Noah Wall, the boy who grew a new brain. During a pregnancy scan, doctors found out that Noah had only 2% of his brain intact. Despite this, amazingly, at 2 years old his 2% brain had grown into 80%. Noah’s development over the years has been like that of a normal child.