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TIL The Christmas tradition of putting candles in one's windows is Irish Catholic in origin. When the English banned Catholicism Irish Catholics placed candles in their windows to secretly invite priests to receive the sacraments.

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KOvM4 TIL A "Wellerism" is an expression that comedically uses a saying in the wrong situation, such as "We'll have to rehearse that, said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car." or "So I see, said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw."
0Ogp TIL there is a relationship between pedophilia and lower IQ
yJbp TIL The actor who played Ralphie in “A Christmas Story” was the executive producer of “Iron Man”
JVM4 TIL “Monty Python And The Holy Grail” was funded entirely by British rock stars, among them Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Elton John
5Ol8 TIL that Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”