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TIL the earliest person we know the name of is a Mesopotamian called Kushim who lived over 5000 years ago

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9wAQm TIL In the sport of cricket, a "five-wicket haul" or a "five-for" is called a "Michelle" in honor of Michelle Pfeiffer.
rJP4 TIL the “Loony Gas Building” was the name given to an old Standard Oil plant in 1924 after every single man who worked there was hospitalized for insanity… 5 of which died. The plant was manufacturing a new, breakthrough product: leaded gasoline additive.
b9VAa TIL Nazis originally planned to forcibly relocate Europe's entire Jewish Population to Madagascar resettling a million Jews a year for four years, until British military complications caused them to shelve the plans.
DQVNY TIL In the Netherland a town exists that fully encloses 22 small exclaves of a Belgian town.
1rE4 TIL that between 30 and 50 per cent of the global population is thought to be infected by a cat parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii. Some scientists believe that the parasite can control the brain of it’s host. A toxo-infected person is more than twice as likely to be in a car accident.