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TIL that a Japanese baby named Chanco is the world's hairiest baby

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BnEx TIL that Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” is why we say “Merry Christmas” today. The phrase had been around before, but when the book was an instant hit in 1843 it popularized it right at a time when Christmas began to establish as an annual tradition again, so the phrase stuck.
0wrwv TIL a library in Herculaneum was burned and buried in 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. For 250+ years, scholars have been unrolling/attempting to decipher recovered manuscripts from the only antiquarian library ever recovered. The site was never fully excavated; it is assumed more are still buried.
kYdE TIL, 50 years ago the US sent half a billion inch-long copper needles in space. They’re still floating around the earth.
eEjD TIL alcohol is prohibited in the British Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.
X0BK6 TIL that in 1920, Major League Baseball banned the spitball, a pitch altered with saliva or other substances, but granted an exception to 17 pitchers, allowing them to continue using it legally until they retired.