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TIL that Sesame Street’s Count von Count penchant for numbers is not only a pun on his name, but vampire legends often indicate arithomania, or a fixation on counting small objects.

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VMyr0 TIL that the equivalent of the English-language idiom "comparing apples and oranges" in Serbian is "grandmothers and toads"; in Romanian it's "the grandmother and the machine gun" or "the cow and the longjohns"; and the equivalent Danish idiom is "What is highest, the Round Tower or a thunderclap?"
VMj7D TIL that a 47-year-old woman called Tammy Sexton, in Birmingham, Alabama was shot in the head by her husband with a .380-caliber handgun and not only did she survive, she managed to make herself a cup of tea and offered one to a police officer.
oKR8 TIL shortly before each terrorist who was involved in the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes was assassinated by Mossad, his family would receive flowers and a condolence card that read, “A reminder we do not forget or forgive.”
8adQP TIL in 2016, 5,712 Native American women were reported missing. Only 116 were logged in the DOJ database.
epjJD TIL that pop artist Andy Warhol, known for his avant-garde work, was a devout Byzantine Catholic who attended Mass every Sunday, volunteered at soup kitchens, and converted at least one person. His brother described him as "really religious," and he quietly supported his nephew’s priesthood studies.