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TIL that crack pipes are sold as fake flowers in a glass tube at convenience stores.

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BEoK TIL the reason that NORAD annually tracks Santa Claus’ journey from the North Pole is because Sears printed an ad to talk to Santa on his private line, with a wrong phone number that was actually CONAD’s top secret hotline that would only ring if there was a national crisis
vPp14 TIL that on June 12, 1942, a Beaufighter Mk.1C conducted a raid in broad daylight at very low altitude along the Champs-Élysées to drop a French flag and then attacked the headquarters Gestapo building with a rocket.
4NPX TIL that singer Chris Brown appeared in court in 2012 with his lawyer regarding his probation after assaulting Rihanna. Brown attempted to address the court but was interrupted by his lawyer, who said “I don’t dance; you don’t talk.”
pYv6Q TIL that the crew of the USS Triton were not told what the goal of Operation Sandblast was (a submerged circumnavigation of the world) until the submarine had already left port and was underway
OAdX TIL Stephen Hawking provided the voice of his own head in a jar on Futurama.