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TIL that by the third and fourth centuries most Roman citizens had entirely abandoned using parental given names (praenomen). Instead, they used clan names (nomen) or nicknames (cognomen)

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KONpG TIL Kazuhiko Torishima, editor of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball, only started working at Shueisha (publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump) because he wanted to work on Japanese Playboy. Torishima was disapointed when Shueisha started sending him boxes of manga as he had never worked with manga before.
WJpA TIL That in 2011 sea levels around the world dropped by almost a cm due to massive rainfalls across Australia.
MeDJV TIL designer Coco Chanel was a Nazi spy and was directly involved in a plan for the Third Reich to take control of Madrid
R78Rw TIL that there's a mental disorder in which individuals may deliberately avoid having fun. It's commonly called Cherophobia.
0w8wp TIL that kids falling victim to tampered Halloween candy is an urban myth. None of the reports have found to be true. In one case a child died from heroin found at a relative's. In another a child died after eating cyanide-laced candy from his father who'd taken out a life insurance policy on him.