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TIL that the word lunatic comes from people thinking that the moon could cause madness.

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v1xGB TIL that when future Czar Nicholas II visited Japan in 1891, he came back to Russia with a dragon tattoo and was nearly assassinated by a Japanese policeman who swung a sword at his face
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Zppa TIL: Hollow point bullets are not allowed in war, yet many police forces around the globe utilize them. Sweden is one of the countries which do…
16ZM4 TIL that a blue moon happens when a full moon appears multiple times in a month and not when the moon becomes blue
w4ME TIL that the Wadi-Al-Hitan site in Egypt contains hundreds of fossilized whales