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TIL the earliest known entry of an internet search on the word “jihad” was in reference to a 1990s anti-Barney the Dinosaur online community called “The Jihad to Destroy Barney.”

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p6eO TIL Only two percent of people in the world have natural blond hair.
ADwXo TIL that Snape’s first words to Harry were actually a Victorian Flower Language secret message.
pYydp TIL that each full moon was given its own name by Native Americans, and the harvest moon is the one closest to the autumnal equinox.
XBvX TIL original PS1 controller was 10% larger in the US compared to Japan, to account for bigger hands in America.
mxPey TIL about Han purple and Han blue. They are synthetic barium copper silicate pigments developed in China and used in ancient and imperial China from the Western Zhou period (1045–771 BC) until the end of the Han dynasty (circa 220 AD).