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TIL the story of Santa and his flying reindeer can be traced to hallucinogenic or “magic” mushrooms.

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rR5P4 TIL of Dipprasad Pun, a Nepalese soldier during the War of Afghanistan who was attacked by 30 insurgents. Believing he was about to die, he expended all 400 rounds of his ammunition, launched 17 grenades, detonated a Claymore mine, and killed an attacker with his tripod, causing them to retreat.
vPXa8 TIL on Nov 13, 1946, NY, pilot Curtis Talbot and scientist Dr. Vincent Schaefer, working for GE Research, released three pounds of dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) into the clouds at 14,000 ft. They looked back to see long streamers of snow. They had created the world’s first human-made snowstorm.
nNP7 TIL no US President has been born and buried under the same American flag (every President has seen a new state added in their lifetime)
Lj6Z TIL: An artist accidentally used £20,000 worth of rare comics to create a papier-mache sculpture for an art exhibition.
4XkR5 TIL The three space shuttle main engines generate the maximum equivalent of about 37 million horsepower. The fuel pump alone delivers as much as 71,000 horsepower, the oxygen pump delivers about 23,000.