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TIL the city of Guangzhou, China, is also known as 'City of the Five Rams', from the five stones at the old Temple of the Five Immortals, which are said to have been the sheep or goats ridden by the Taoist culture heroes credited with introducing rice cultivation to the area.

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8akyG TIL that the original parmesan cheese is produced in Italy which the name of the cheese is originated as Parmigiano-Reggiano. And that there are differences between Parmigiano-Reggiano and parmesan cheese.
WkdK4 TIL: Those neck things are called gaiters?!
OoAOg TIL In a study of the mental health of students, higher levels of prayer were associated with better mental health as measured by lower psychoticism scores. However, in Catholic schools, higher levels of prayer were also associated with higher neuroticism scores.
JJol TIL that one of the first people to be killed by a robot was Kenji Urada, a Japanese engineer working at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.
XE0P6 TIL of Richard Turner, a true American badass. One of the best card magicians in the world, he also earned a karate black belt in the toughest karate school in the country, hunted sharks, climbed cliffs without securing and became a trapeze artist. Oh, and he lost his eyesight at the age of 9.