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TIL that saying "God Bless You" when someone sneezes likely originated from the time of the bubonic plague wherein one of the symptoms of the disease is sneezing. Saying "God bless you" to someone who just sneezed serves as a prayer for the person for his otherwise certain death.

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Oov1L TIL that at the Battle of Tsushima the ratio of Russian sailors killed to Japanese was roughly 50:1
5PJk TIL that the first school shooting to happen in the United States was the Enoch Brown school massacre, in which 2 Delaware (Lenape) American Indians broke into a school where they shot and scalped the students and their teacher. 4 others were taken prisoner.
epwE5 TIL Debra McKenna forgot a class ring gifted by her then fiancé in a department store in Maine in 1973. A worker found it 47 years later with a metal detector, buried in a forest in Finland.
JYKNv TIL the Southern Elephant Seal holds the record for the deepest dive of any seal species at 2,100 meters (6,890 feet) . Max length 20.2 ft, max weight 8,820 lbs.
BgWQD TIL that there is a casting agency in London for ugly people. Its domain name is ugly.org.