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TIL that the US post office turns children’s letters to Santa into a giant gift registry that allows citizens to fulfill children’s Christmas wishes

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8ayZX TIL A Dutch start-up company have been able to start training wild crows so that they pick up cigarette butts and put them in bins for peanut as a reward.
j6ZPN TIL about the unmade movie ATUK which has been in development since the 80s. The film is often considered cursed because on 6 different occasions the actor offered the lead role died unexpectedly. These include John Belushi, John Candy and even Chris Farley
XEZgP TIL Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Claude Rains, and Herbert Marshall all served in the London Scottish Regiment in World War I. All won medals for valor, and all but Rathbone were wounded. Rains got his trademark husky voice because his vocal cords had been paralyzed in a poison gas attack.
6EagY TIL about Paul-Félix Armand-Delille who, when trying to reduce the rabbit population on his estate, purposefully released the myxomatosis virus amongst them which spread and destroyed the wild rabbit populations of Europe
nbeP TIL along the busy highways of Australia, volunteers hand out coffee, tea , and snacks to sleepy drivers. The Stop, Revive and Survive program has been running for more than 20 years with one objective: to reduce road collisions by alleviating driver fatigue.