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TIL Will Ferrell's shocked reactions to the jack-in-the-box's in "Elf" were genuine, as Jon Favreau was controlling them remotely offstage.

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M4j0 TIL Dying is illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway because the town’s small graveyard stopped accepting bodies after discovering the permafrost prevented the bodies from decomposing.
8ewXa TIL Bram Stoker (of Dracula fame) also wrote a collection of children's stories. Critics of the time called them "morbid"
b9DD0 TIL Soccer balls were originally black and white so they were easy to spot on television.
a8O0 TIL A tribe in New Guinea met a White man for the first time in 1976 and it was filmed. They have never seen modern civilization, or any modern technology
8ekW4 TIL a robot named HitchBot successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but got decapitated while hitchhiking across the US