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TIL “Katamari Damacy” translates literally to “clump of souls”

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kJKyd TIL James G. Blaine Society is an organization that discourages people from moving to Oregon. It is named after James G. Blaine because he visited every state in the Union except Oregon in his 1884 campaign.
jPZE TIL Humans have 15 “other senses” that include things like balance, temperature, pain and time, as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness.
Lm1Z TIL: That in Damian Marley’s Welcome To Jamrock, the line “Out in the street they call it murder” they don’t say murder but merther, which denotes the trance like state you reach when smoking weed and listening to reggae. The line it self is actually a sample from Ini Kamoze’s World A Music.
WkE7N TIL Geothermal water is used to heat around 90% of Iceland's homes, and keeps pavements and car parks snow-free in the winter.
QNBgd TIL that Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland, while trying to make a shellac substitute in 1907, accidentally invented Bakelite; the first fully synthetic plastic. Used to make everything from buttons and billiard balls, radios and firearms; it launched the modern plastics industry.