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TIL that there was a Commonwealth Winter Games. Between 1958 and 1966 three editions took place in St. Moritz Switzerland.

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4XaRg TIL Adam Rainer is the only person in medical history to have been classified both as a dwarf and giant during his lifetime. He went from being 4 feet 6 inches tall at the age of 19 to being 7 feet 8 inches at 51. This was caused by a tumor that led to an overproduction of growth hormones.
awlYA TIL that Tolkien wrote yearly letters to his children as if they were from Father Christmas. They started off as simple Happy Christmas letters but grew more complex including a polar bear sidekick, the man on the moon, goblins, snow-elves, pictures, and he even developed an Arktik language.
lojQr TIL about transculturation, a process in which cultures living together adopt one another's practices (generally benefitting the culture in power). An example is Our Lady of Guadalupe, who first appeared at a location already sacred in Aztec times and gradually became the patron saint of Mexico.
Lald TIL by the age of 13, legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, won the weekly amateur contest at the Apollo Theater so many times that he was eventually barred from entering.
MeV4K TIL Tinder, Match.com, OKCupid, and PoF are owned by the same company.