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TIL To pull yourself up by your bootstraps is actually physically impossible. In fact, the original meaning of the phrase was more along the lines of “to try to do something completely absurd.”

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jN8JR TIL that a catholic altar boy born in Boston dropped out of school, came to Jamaica and then join an Ethiopian Zion Church which he further transformed into an international drug network. The organization was later indicted in Florida for smuggling over 100 tons of marijuana.
8e96b TIL that Marvel Comics has a superhero named Man-Thing. In the 1970s it published a series called 'Giant-Size Man-Thing'.
gMAky TIL That in Canada, you can write a letter to Santa in the mail and will receive one back. His postal (zip) code is HOH OHO.
wdy1 TIL Medieval Catholic doctrine held that cross-dressing should be evaluated based on context and that necessity would be a permissible reason for cross-dressing. (which made Joan d'Arc innocent)
PLaG TIL: Tom Kenny (SpongeBob’s voice) is married to the actress who plays the voice of Karen (Plankton’s computer wife)