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TIL race means a subgroup within a species, which is not scientifically applicable to humans because there exist no subspecies within modern humans

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rygo TIL that Germans celebrate Krampus, the half goat demon partner of St. Nicholas who beats naughty children and drags them down to hell. The have festivals where people dress as him and scare children into being good. He’s terrifying.
AAMx TIL Bill Nye has gotten three honorary Doctorate Degrees, for being Bill Nye.
W7gNA TIL the 1991 movie Hook was originally meant to be a musical
Br59k TIL Lewis Keseburg, one of the survivors of the Donner Party that practiced cannibalism, started a brewery, a hotel, and a restaurant after his rescue.
nWB9Y TIL about Đorđe Martinović a Serb farmer from Kosovo who was at the center of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the insertion of a bottle into his anus. The Martinović affair, as it became known, turned into a cause célèbre in Yugoslav politics.