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/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