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TIL that there's a Fear of slime called Mysophobia

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0wZWL TIL there was a short-lived 1977 buddy cop TV series about a small town Irish cop who fights crime with the help of his best friend the local rabbi using his "rabbinic mind" and Talmudic training.
17wO TIL on the day before Super Bowl XXII, [Redskins QB Doug] Williams had a six-hour root canal surgery performed (under full anaesthetic) to repair an abscess under a dental bridge; he played the Super Bowl with his jaw wired shut.
LQlZm TIL about the city of Palmanova in Italy, that is a 9-pointed star-shaped fortress town that took 200 years to build from 1593 under the Venetian Republic to 1813 under the Napoleonic domination and it's included in UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list
e0dgk TIL that the reason why 420 is associated with weed is because of some high schoolers in the 1970s. 4:20 pm was the perfect time to goof around and smoke weed. It’s right after school and before parents got home. It just ended up being code for smoking weed.
OoZL TIL that yearly in the first weekend of September the city of Breda in The Netherlands hosts an International Redhead Festival.