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TIL Charles Schulz was not a fan of Santa Claus, that's why the original Christmas special is about the Nativity and the Halloween special is about a Santa like figure not showing up.

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v17Kx TIL about Moravec's paradox which says that reasoning requires less computation while perception requires enormous computation
ABMx TIL that on August 1, 1946, in Athens, Tennessee, battle-hardened WWII veterans won a shootout with highly corrupt police deputies who were manipulating ballots and illegally holding ex-GIs in the county jail.
kJBKE TIL that "Pumpkin Toadlets" - two Brazilian species of tiny frogs have lost the ability to hear their own mating calls.
PYowE TIL that a British man named Michael Faban broke into Buckingham's Palace, twice, in less then a month in 1982. He urinated in the Royal Corgis dog food, wandered the palace, made a maid look crazy, stole wine from Prince Charles room and woke up the Queen in her bedroom.
lLlA TIL that the original EverQuest game made a server called Discord. It was a pvp permadeath full loot server with prizes going to the first few players to hit level 50. The devs openly allowed cheats as well. It was a honeypot server to study cheats and then ban the exploiters after.