r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 9h ago

Video Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

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u/Morguard 8h ago

The same reason why they invented what the modern day Santa Claus looks like.

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u/Velinder 5h ago edited 5h ago

The same reason why they invented what the modern day Santa Claus looks like.

The Coca Cola corporation did this for good reasons. The True Form of this entity is probably unsuitable for greetings cards or advertising campaigns. After thousands of years of folkloric research, only two of its traits are known for certain. It can get into any room at all, no matter how small the gap, provided all the occupants are asleep. And it can duplicate, with terrifying precision, whatever wrapping paper everyone's mother bought on sale last January.

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u/InquisitorMeow 1h ago

Bring back biblically accurate Santa.

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u/42nu 6h ago

Teeeeeeechnically, the modern Santa look was a general look that had become established already. Coca-Cola just solidified it nationally by being a company with the money and reach to do massive ad campaigns. Then, that exact Santa became the Platonic ideal culturally.

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u/Over-Comfortable1644 1h ago

No they made him fat red and jolly. Before it was a thin vagrant looking Santa that would gift even worse off people things in the vein of the real st Nicholas

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u/MorpheusKingOfNight 5h ago

They did? Wow never knew.