While studying a human brain, researchers at Newcastle University (UK) found a blood vessel that looks like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer:

Claudia Racca, of the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University, who performed the experiment with colleague David Cox, said: “Biology can throw up things like this, but it was a nice surprise to find this image.

“We were looking at a section of the tissue and noticed this strange but familiar shape. “It was intriguing and we noticed the similarity to a reindeer.

“We then took an overexposed picture of it and the red blob for the nose and the white antlers showed up even better.

“We got distracted from the science at that point and had a bit of fun with the pictures of Rudolph instead.

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Psst, misfits! We’ve just gotten a shipment of the Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer plushies at the Island of Misift Toys (AKA NeatoShop).

The plushies include Hermey the Misfit Elf (who’d rather become a dentist than working at Santa’s workshop), Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster of the North, the Spotted Elephant, and of course, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

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“Kids won’t believe it when my grandchildren tell them that their grandmother is really Rudolph,” Richards said in a 2005 interview with Filmfax magazine. She was credited as “Billy Richards” to mask the fact that she was a woman.

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” based on the eponymous 1949 song, premiered in 1964 and CBS airs it to this day around the holidays.

“What better legacy can you leave than a show that everybody loves?” Richards told NPR in 2004.

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