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TIL Good King Wenceslas is technically a Boxing Day (26 Dec) carol, not a Christmas carol.

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jNDMv TIL The girl from “The Ring” was inspired by a true story/legend. A young girl, Okiku, was a Samurai’s servant who refused his advances. After being thrown down a well by the spurned Samurai, she reportedly haunted him by crawling out of the well to visit him every night.
8ew74 TIL the person who invented dumpsters name was dempster, and they where originally called Dempster Dumpsters
9YJ7G TIL there is a fear of cartoon characters, and it has a name: Kyrofelonoshophobia
LQ1Wm TIL Volcanos in Hawaii can produce hair-like strands of glass called "Pele's Hair."
1JWd TIL inn WW2 the Nazis had a wooden airfield in Northern France, the British knew about it. Being British they let them build it and then dropped a wooden bomb on it!