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TIL Handwriting experts suggest Czar Alexander I of Russia, who defeated Napoleon, faked his own death and reinvented himself as the monk Fyodor Kuzmich, who had noble manners, spoke several languages, and claimed to have forgotten his past.

epbBD TIL the first documented serial killer from the Philippines was a catholic priest named Juan Severino Mallari during the Spanish colonial period. He reportedly killed 57 people in his parish before he was discovered, arrested, imprisoned and hanged in 1840.
epR94 TIL about Concetta Antico, a painter with tetrachromacy. This is an incredibly rare condition found predominantly in women, in which a person is born with 4 ocular cones instead of three. She can see around 90 million more colors than the average person.
oBkRK TIL that the version of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" most people have seen is an edited version produced for the 1966 rebroadcast. The 1965 version was considered lost media until 2018, when an original film reel was discovered and its contents were uploaded to the internet
XEbbr TIL: The "air" puffing-up most potato chips bags is actually not air. It's nitrogen. Chemical reactions with regular air would hurt the taste. Also, typical snacks bags are a high-tech sandwich of polypropylene, a possible thin coating of aluminum, and polyethylene (grocery-bag plastic).
6EoWm TIL that the term "blacklist" was coined by King Charles II of England, who kept a list of people to be punished for his father's execution.