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TIL only two Spice Girls appear on their Christmas song Christmas Wrapping: Emma and Mel C. Victoria and Mel B were on maternity leave, and Geri had left the group by then.

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7rWZr TIL: WWII - In 1944, the American military attaché in Bern warned the Swiss foreign minister, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, that the mistreatment inflicted on US aviators could lead to “navigation errors” during bombing raids over Germany.
b9BRp TIL that Yale University is named after Elihu Yale, "the most overrated philanthropist in history," instead of main philanthropist Jeremiah Dummer, because Dummer College would have been a bad name.
Bx0W TIL there is an island the size of Manhattan in the Bay of Bengal whose inhabitants have had almost no contact with the outside world. It may be the last such place on earth.
wo0pM TIL An estimated 5% to 28% of people experience auditory hallucinations as they fall asleep or are waking up. Up to 70% of people have experienced this at least once. Having auditory hallucinations when wide awake is cause for concern though.
NXY0b TIL that the world's longest golf course is 1365km long. Nullarbor Links is an18-hole par 72 golf course with one hole in each participating town or roadhouse along the Eyre Highway, from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to Ceduna in South Australia.