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TIL that Santa Claus is real in the Marvel Universe and is a very powerful mutant.

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69bp8 TIL that in the original treatment for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Rufus was a 28-year-old high school sophomore who lived in a van with his pet dog.
ep9V6 TIL that although, in 2009, Jessica Watson sailed around the planet in solo on her Pink Lady yacht, she didn't manage to do a complete circumnavigation because she was short by nearly 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) of the full distance of 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km)
4kRXo TIL Melbourne's Federation Square is built on 4,000 springs to prevent the train lines running underneath from vibrating the artworks in the galleries above.
PYnWZ TIL about Polyandry, a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. One example of polyandry is in the Himalayan mountains, due to the scarcity of land. The marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife allows family land to remain intact and undivided.
OoLVR Today I learned that the cloudy vapor that appears when liquid nitrogen is exposed to the air is condensed moisture, not the gas itself. The gas actually causing the condensation and freezing is completely invisible.