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TIL redheads are called “rangas” in Australia, ranga being short for “orangutang”.

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a81eJ TIL In 1927 Italy, Giulio Canella, a M.I.A. soldier from WW1, was "found" alive in an asylum and reunited with his "family." But a court later found he was not Canella but Mario Bruneri, a wanted criminal. Canella's widow continued living with the man and insisted he was her husband until her death.
4a8X TIL that M&M’s actually stands for “Mars & Murrie’s,” the last names of the candy’s founders.
9o4B TIL that, by using astronomy, we have guessed the date that Odysseus took back the throne of Ithaca as described in Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’: April 16th, 1178 B.C.
6EwdW TIL that JFK was allegedly addicted to meth while in office
X4jX TIL that the ancient board game “Go” was being played at a tournament in Hiroshima in 1945, when the atomic bomb went off only 3 miles way. Though the building was damaged and people were injured, they finished the match later that same afternoon (white won)