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Boing Boing 

Santa Claus was actually a psychedelic mushroom

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Santa didn't take drugs; he was drugs. With Christmas approaching, it's time to revisit the enchanting concept of Psychedelic Santa involving psychoactive mushrooms and the shamanic rituals of the indigenous Sámi people who live in northern Finland. — Read the rest

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The origins of Estonian Christmas vocabulary

Jõuluvana, verivorst, hapukapsas, päkapikk, piparkook – in Estonia and among the diaspora, Christmas-related words like these are likely familiar even to those who don't speak much Estonian. But where do they come from?

MCSWEENEY’S 

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“God Rest Ye Weary New Mother (For Twenty-Four Hours, Then Please Vacate the Maternity Ward)”

“Grandma Got Screwed Over on Her Claim, Dear”

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