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TIL that the reason Yukon Cornelius keeps licking his ax in the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" special is because he's looking for peppermint. The scene explaining that was deleted.

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vPRoL TIL that the city of Isfahan immediately surrendered to the turco-Mongol conqueror Timur and was treated with mercy. The city then killed Timur’s tax collector and his soldiers. He ordered the massacre of over 100,000 of the cities citizens and built dozens of piles out of their heads as revenge.
xVAd5 TIL a plane landed so softly it broke the landing gear
n6w7 TIL a 2012 study by Tampere University of Technology found that, with energy efficiency improvements, a single household could decrease its energy consumption by more than 40%
woVn1 TIL: In 2022, the debut studio album by American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), was added to the American National Recording Registry
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