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TIL the first deaf person in recorded history was a painter

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oRm1K TIl that what we currently know as the dollar sign ($) was originally used as an abbreviation of "pesos", the currency used in several former Spanish colonies. The dollar originated from the peso, or "Spanish dollar", in the 18th century.
vJpx TIL that this year 3 top UFO investigators have died, all under mysterious circumstance. in an update today it was discovered the third managed to send his mother a text saying “If anything happens to me, investigate.”, just days before his death.
8ax7V TIL that the inventor of Coca-Cola, John Stith Pemberton was a Civil War veteran who became addicted to morphine due to pain from a saber wound to the chest. Seeking alternatives to his morphine use, he developed the original formula for Coca-Cola with use of the coca plant for pain relief.
ep46k TIL that millions of Japanese people celebrate Christmas with KFC as a modern tradition.
E1lV7 TIL that after Attila the Hun died, his soldiers plucked out the hair of their heads and made their faces hideous with deep wounds, so that the great warrior should not be mourned by effeminate wailings and tears, but by the blood of men