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TIL that in English “to feel blue” refers to feeling depressed, while in German “blau sein” (literally: to be blue) means to be drunk, and Russian “голубой” (literally: light blue) means to be homosexual.

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wLAko TIL Clair Cameron Petterson, the American geochemist who proposed the still-accepted age of the Earth of 4.5 billion years old, helped accelerated the phaseout of lead from all standard, consumer, automotive gas, decreasing lead level in blood of Americans by 80% by the late 1990s.
N7onP TIL that a Franciscan friar once argued that Paul the Apostle had only condemned sodomy in his epistles because Paul enjoyed sodomy and wanted to keep the practice to himself. The friar was executed for his views in 1550.
xpeB TIL: John F. Kennedy’s sister, Rosemary, was lobotomized at the age of 23. Her Father authorized it and didn’t tell the family until after. The truth only came out after John was elected President.
N7KBJ TIL That Spaceballs was originally going to be titled Planet Moron, but was changed when a film titled Morons from Outer Space was released; Spaceballs, despite the assumed innuendo, was a result of needing “space” in the title and Brooks considering it one of his trademark “screwball” comedies.
E1NAP TIL that the lyrics in Le Freak by CHIC originally contained the words “fuck off” rather then “freak out”. They got the idea after being denied entry to a club and the bouncer told them to “fuck off”. The lyrics were changed since they couldn’t say fuck on the radio.