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TIL There is no mention of the color blue in The Odyssey, The Iliad and the Hebrew Bible because across all cultures, words for colors appear in stages. And blue always comes last.

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b6ZgN TIL that alligators can't die of old age. The only way they die is by running out of available food consumption or by being killed by humans. They live an average of 30-50 years old.
L1Yr TIL: In 1995, St. Jude’s Hospital received an anonymous letter with a $1 million winning McDonald’s Monopoly game piece. Although it was against the rules to transfer prizes, McDonald’s honored it even after learning that the piece was sent by an individual involved in an embezzlement scheme.
rRjyx TIL that 112 people died during the construction of the Hoover Dam, and the last documented fatality was the son of the first documented fatality
jNbgQ TIL that the difference between a healthy fear and clinical phobia is not logic. You can be afraid of anything , like this person who had a celebrity phobia. She was afraid of Hugh Jackman.
wLr6o TIL A band called The Warlocks were set to play a benefit concert in San Francisco in December 1965, but the problem was that there was already a band called The Warlocks...so they changed their name to The Grateful Dead.