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TIL Dr Seuss’ name rhymes with ‘Voice’ not 'Zeus’

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4X1vJ TIL that Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind.
LXpp TIL A Swedish couple refused to name their child. When they were charged for leaving their child nameless for five years, they submitted the child’s name as “Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116”.
xJKD TIL Christine Maggiore was an activist with HIV who said it didn’t cause AIDS. She convinced thousands of people not to test for AIDS and to have unprotected sex. When she got pregnant she didn’t use medication to prevent the risk of transmission; her daughter died at age 3. Maggiore died of AIDS.
woldY TIL the only Monegasque competitor to ever have won an Olympic medal Olympic is Julien Médécin, who received a Bronze medal for Architecture in 1924
VM060 TIL The USS Niagara was intentionally sunk in 1820 for preservation, and raised 93 years later for restoration.