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TIL Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer is Female

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yQpp8 TIL Before she became a big name in pop music, Taylor Swift was knocking praying mantises out of Christmas trees. Her family lived on a tree farm, and the superstar’s job was to ensure customers’ christmas trees weren’t full of bugs.
lP8a TIL that Hitler grew to hate soccer because it couldn’t be fixed to ensure German victory over non-Germans.
GAP4J TIL at the Summer Olympics 2004 hosted by Greece, in observance of the tradition that the delegation of Greece opens the parade of nations and the host nation closes it, the Greek flag bearer opened the parade and all the Greek delegation closed it.
ZZ9o TIL an ancient Buddha statue recovered by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite.
PKML TIL that Beethoven wrote Moonlight sonata to a blind girl who wanted to know what was a moonlight like