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

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7wjZ TIL that Daniel Radcliffe lost his virginity at 16 with a 23 year old hairdresser on one of the Harry Potter movies
0wDgv TIL that 100 million years ago, the Sahara Desert was inhabited by galloping crocodiles. These crocodile relatives were nicknamed BoarCroc, DuckCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc and PancakeCroc.
JopV TIL one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project teaches a free, online MIT course of introductiry biological titled: The Secret of Life
b664 TIL that when James French was executed by the electric chair in 1966, his last words were “How’s this for a headline? French fries.”
XEJOk TIL One of the most inaccurately named men in history was Charles Coward. While in German captivity, he traded clothes with a Jewish inmate so that he could report to the British on what was happening in Auschwitz, and he later testified in Nuremberg.