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TIL JRR Tolkien (Author of the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings) would hand-write, illustrate, envelop, seal, stamp letters from "Father Christmas" to each of his children each year.

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wAKW TIL that US military operations during the 2003 Iraq invasion were originally conducted under the codename Operation Iraqi Liberation. They later changed it to Operation Iraqi Freedom because of the acronym.
QNGPp TIL that 76% of Eritreans defecate in the open
nWaVB TIL that REO Speedwagon was a real automobile brand (1915)
ADxxB TIL that in 2001, Pizza Hut delivered to the International Space Station costing them roughly one million USD
lLYN TIL: After the murder of a director William Taylor, a reporter tried to get a confession out of Taylor’s black valet. Believing that blacks were afraid of ghosts, she lured the valet to a cemetery where a man covered in a bed sheet appeared pretending to be a ghost. The valet then laughed at them.