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TIL "once in a blue moon" is around every 2.7172 years and is coincidentally close to the number e.

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QJbGd TIL about the final speech of Romanian dictator Nicolas Ceaușescu: Having forcefully assembled 100.000 workers under threat of being fired on one of Bucharests main squares in order to stage a supportive rally, the crowd soon turned against him, marking the beginning of the end of his dictatorship.
QN0BL TIL Jain scriptures dated from the 6th century B.C. propose the existence of "nigodas," tiny creatures living everywhere, in the tissues of plants and animals. It wasn't until 1646 when Athanasius Kircher wrote that milk and vinegar were "abound with an innumerable multitude of worms"
ANwdo TIL the Japanese words 青 (ao) and 青い (aoi) can refer to either blue or green depending on the situation.
e01x4 TIL Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, was orphaned at 12 and named her son after her guardian, George Eskridge. Her husband, Augustine Washington, died when their son George was 11, and she never remarried. She died of breast cancer in 1789, after George became the president.
mxlgy TIL in 2013 the Pirate Bay faked moving its servers to North Korea. Various news outlets including NBC and ‘Business Insider’ reported the event as factual, without ever updating that it was a hoax.