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TIL Humans didn’t have a way to describe the color blue until relatively recently. Homer’s The Odyssey doesn’t contain a single instance of the word ‘blue’.

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oRZpY TIL the five oldest companies still operating in the world are all Japanese.
Ovx1 TIL that during the Battle of Moscow, despite German forces closing to within 50 kilometers of the city, the Soviet Union still held the annual military parade marking the revolution. Soviet troops who paraded past the Kremlin, then marched directly to the front line and into battle.
KOYNJ TIL cousin Fuller in "Home Alone" is played by Macaulay Culkin's real life brother Kieran Culkin.
5YkJp TIL the actor who played Uncle Lewis in Christmas Vacation (William Hickey) was only 61 years old when the movie was filmed
0wrgR TIL of a man named Garry Hoy who died trying to prove to a bunch of students that the glass wall on the 24tn storey of the building he worked in was unbreakable. He threw himself at the glass wall which didn't break but the window frame gave way and he fell to his death.