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TIL the phrase "Merry Christmas" become popular due to Charles Dickins "A Christmas Carol"

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6J4W TIL that there was once so many millipedes in Australia that it caused a train crash
VM5Zm TIL former NHL goalie Gilles Gratton believed he was an executioner who stoned people to death in a past life and was fated to be a goalie as punishment.
oBrVr TIL in 2013, a photographer recorded seventeen seconds of footage of an elusive night parrot—a Lazarus species that hadn't been spotted in nearly a century. A bird expert called it "the bird-watching equivalent of finding Elvis flipping burgers in an outback roadhouse."
YLyP TIL a man named Lars Andersen has rediscovered an ancient form of archery that allows him to loose 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds, while it takes others 13-35 seconds. He is even faster than the fictional archer Legolas in the Lord of the Rings series.
DQa6v TIL Hulk Hogan also had a brief stint as a musician. In 1995, he released"Hulk Rules" singing and playing guitar on tracks like "Hulkster's in the House" and "Beach Patrol." Album wasn't a success, it remains a unique and entertaining footnote in Hogan's career.