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TIL the highly expensive paint “Ultramarine blue” is named not after it’s ocean-blue color, but instead means “from beyond the sea” (i.e. imported from Asia)

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M7gba TIL there was a scholarship named by a mother for her son, serial killer Harvey Glatman
wowp6 TIL of the Sphinx, a french ironclad warship initially built for the confederacy. After the Union blocked the transaction France sold the ship to Denmark, who refused to accept the ship and sold it back to the confederates. The ship then changed hands several times to end his carreer in Japan.
npKo TIL A 20 year old spent six months looking for the person who killed his online character in a virtual knife fight, found him living a few miles away, and stabbed him in the chest.
OoDM4 TIL it is a myth that adult birds abandon their young if handled by humans as birds have a very poor sense of smell.
rR6Zw TIL after a Taliban fighter successfully shot down an American CH-47D Chinook, he bragged about it over his radio. Signals Intelligence was able to determine who had made the call and after only 2 days, an F-16, a C-130, and two Apache Gunships killed him and 5 others using their combined firepower.