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TIL Jean-Claude Romand pretended to work for the World Health Organization, fooling friends and family for 18 years. Instead of working, he hid in hotels to study medicine and maps of countries he claimed to visit. When afraid of being exposed, he killed his entire family and burned down his house.

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leyA TIL the Catholic Church has an official position on Jesus’ blood type. It’s AB.
OLm6 TIL the memory technique that Sherlock Holmes uses, known as a “Mind Palace”, is a real technique and that most of the people who have mastered this practice are of average intelligence.
4XO0g TIL during WWI, due to concerns the public would reject their product, American sauerkraut makers relabeled it as "Liberty Cabbage".
LQddm TIL in 2003, art historian Juan Junquera has questioned the authenticity of the 14 Black Paintings by Goya. According to Junquera, Goya's son may have created the paintings, and his grandson later passed them off as Goya's works for financial gain
8OAL TIL that the word ‘dollar’ comes from the word 'thaler’ which comes from 'Joachimstaler’ - Joachimsthal was a silver-miner from Bohemia.