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TIL that Canada reserves the postal code "H0H 0H0" for letters addressed to Santa.

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v11wj TIL that in the English language, I.e means "that is" and e.g means " for example". ( In Latin I.e= Id est, e.g = exempli gratia)
J1bl TIL that Ian Fleming, the original author of the James Bond series, also wrote the famous children’s book “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang”
0mBL TIL that Jesus was described as a short, bald, hook-nosed, ugly man without a beard by all his apostles. His European features were actually modeled after Cesare Borgia, Pope Alexander VI’s murderous son.
ymPw TIL In the Victorian era, there were special moustache cups for drinking tea. The cup kept men’s moustache wax out of the tea so it wouldn’t melt into their cup when they took a sip.
DQNoD TIL the Michelin man is actually called Bibendum owning to the Latin slogan ‘Nunc est bibendum’ = “Now is the time to drink”