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TIL the pigment/paint Prussian Blue is used in medicine to treat radiation poisoning from Thallium and Caesium.

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N7E48 TIL in 1578, the king of Portugal launched a crusade against Morocco. The crusade ended with a single battle wherein the king of Portugal, the sultan of Morocco, and the previously deposed sultan of Morocco all died.
gMRl4 TIL Ferrari is the Italian equivalent of 'Smith', a metalworker (from Latin ferrum = iron)
YojA TIL because of his interest in Egyptology and difficult fitting in with his French family, Christian Louboutin invented an elaborate fantasy in which he’d been adopted from Egypt. Years later, he learned that his biological father was, in fact, Egyptian.
yQkYe TIL the Greeks often described foreign languages as sounding like "bar bar bar." Anyone who spoke a foreign language was called a Barbarian.
Ooj4e TIL that there is s fungus called xylaria polymorpha which looks like dead man fingers protruding from the ground.