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TIL that Homer referred to the sea as “wine-dark” six times in his works and nobody’s really sure why (whether wine was blue, the sea was red, or Greeks were colorblind)

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168MO TIL about Dafen oil painting village, a suburb in Shenzhen, China, nicknamed the capital of mass art knock-offs, being a zone with many workshops dedicated to reproduce famous paintings of west and east, specifically, oil paintings but they made personal works for people too.
M7gVW TIL that Christian Science runs the CSM. This may seem like a "well duh" revelation but Christian Science believes that all diseases are in the head (basically the medical version of flat eartherism) while the CSM is actually quite a reputable source and even won a few Pulitzer Prizes
m10Av TIL Known as "the mensch who saved Christmas," CEO Aaron Feuerstein rose to global prominence for paying workers after their factory burned down before Christmas. The company spent $25 million on repairs & employee salaries by the time it reopened. Five years later, the company filed for Chapter 11.
5VnkP TIL about Volcanoville, California which got its name from miners' mistaken belief that a nearby mountain was an extinct volcano.
W7QLo TIL Shakespeare's skull is missing from his grave, which mysteriously does not bear his name, but rather a curse: “Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones."