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TIL the feast day of St. Nicholas (Santa Claus) isn’t on December 25th, but on December 6th

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x6mgk TIL the insects we call “skeeter eaters” DON’T actually eat mosquitos…who did their PR?
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M7By8 TIL Elwood Edwards was paid $200 in 1989 for recording the iconic phrase "You've Got Mail" for AOL.
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NRB6 TIL of the Bodo League Massacre, where 100,000 + suspected communists were killed by the South Korean government in 1950. US, Australian, and British officials witnessed and photographed the political genocide.