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TIL Vincent van Gogh didn't begin painting until he was 26

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5YVkp TIL: The term "Patient Zero" was a misunderstanding. It referred to a Canadian man named Gaëtan Dugas, who was linked to the AIDS epidemic in the '70s. He was a flight attendant that scientists dubbed "Patient O, the outside-of-California case". The O was later misinterpreted as the number 0.
X04kR TIL that Jimmy Carter is known as the first US President born in a hospital (1924)
0wb9N TIL meconium is the name of a newborn’s first poop
6E5pw TIL during the Space Race, the Soviet chief rocket engineer Sergei Korolev was never referred to by his real name. He was always identified as the "Chief Designer" to avoid a potential assassination attempt by the US. Not even cosmonauts working with him knew his real name.
bVmN TIL of UVB-76, a mysterious Russian radio signal that has been transmitting continuously since 1982. Nobody knows who makes the signal, only that it is located near Moscow, makes a buzzing sound 25 times a minute, and every few years will broadcast a string of random names and numbers.