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TIL That King County, Washington, home of Seattle, has a logo that's MLK Jr's face with the county's name underneath

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wLNAW TIL about 'Umarells', a term used in Italy used to describe old men, who watch over construction sites with their hands behind their backs, offering unwanted advice.
xVAaw TIL of Dancing Mania, also known as dancing plague, St. John's Dance or St. Vitus's Dance. This was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time.
rNamM TIL: Art was once an Olympic sport. This was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin (Founder of modern games) Between 1912 and 1948 medals were given out for sporting-inspired masterpieces of architecture, music, painting, sculpture and literature.
Wk4lo TIL Flowering tea or blooming tea, was a thing. It consists of a bundle of dried tea leaves wrapped around one or more dried flowers. These are made by binding tea leaves and flowers together into a bulb, then setting them to dry.
epwVb TIL that there's a cosmological model that says our observable universe is inside a black hole.