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TIL Santa Clause is the “Patron Saint of Prostitutes”

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v9w4 TIL that strawberries and cream oatmeal doesn’t have real dried strawberries…they are apple pieces dyed and flavored to taste like strawberries. The blueberries and cream are dyed and flavored figs.
JYB5v TIL that SOS messages have been found stitched in Primark clothing, allegedly from employees complaining of "sweatshop conditions" and being "worked like oxen" over 15 hour shifts.
megx TIL John Thompson sued and won against Harry Connick Sr’s DA office after spending 18 years behind bars (14 of which he spent in solitary confinement on death row) for being wrongfully convicted of murder by Connick’s DA office due to evidence withholding
W7VNo TIL Fifteen minutes of shivering from cold temperatures can be the metabolic equivalent of 1 hour of exercise.
8DgK TIL Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, is the only moon in our solar system with a retrograde orbit - an orbit in the opposite direction its planet, and is thus thought to be a dwarf planet that Neptune caught from the Kuiper belt.