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TIL In 1927 Santa Clause was officially given a pilots license and airway maps from the Department of Commerce

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GALaG TIL that only 1 song used in the film Singin' in the Rain was entirely new. All of the other songs, including Singin' in the Rain, had already been used in previous films in one form or another.
bjyp TIL that last names have a natural tendency to go extinct over time-and that China experiences this with 96% of the population sharing only 200 surnames.
w1P7 TIL: The former ambassador of Zaire (now Dem. Congo) to Poland, was found penniless - living in the Warsaw railway station, being attacked by other homeless people (in 1994)
QXP9 TIL NASA had to relabel the penis sleeve for urinating in space suits from “small, medium, and large” to “large, gigantic, and humungous” because astronauts would only choose the large and they kept slipping off.
mxWNO TIL that former heavyweight champions Riddick Bowe and Mike Tyson were in the same sixth grade class but didn't know each other.