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TIL that “God rest you merry” is an archaic way of expressing good wishes, so the Christmas carol is “God rest you merry, gentlemen” not “God rest you, merry gentlemen”

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yVQ6v TIL that the inflatable pig on the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals broke loose from its chain tethering during the album photoshoot. The pig floated about 20,000 feet in the air causing commerical planes to land mid-flight. Fittingly, the British Royal Air Force found the pig on a farm.
OoMre TIL that serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells killed a boy whose own mother was found guilty of the murder. Authorities refused to believe it was the work of a serial killer until 2 years later at a retrial. The prosecutor, not wanting to be in the wrong, still claims that the mother did it.
yQlyl TIL that almost a thousand years before the modern environmental movement, William the Conqueror established the system of "Forest Law", which operated outside of the Common Law in effort to protect game animals and their forest habitat from destruction.
xVXYD TIL that in the Plutchik's wheel of emotions, boredom is on the same spectrum as disgust and loathing.
QJRak TIL that the now extinct Rocky Mountain locust last swarmed and destroyed crops in the US A in the 1870s