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TIL That it is a taboo to wear green hats in China because it signals you as a cuckold

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PY4OJ TIL Amerigo Vespucci (and by extension, America) may have been named after St. Emericus of Hungary. St. Emericus died at 24 during a boar hunt, and was only canonized 52 years later after a series of miracles occured at his grave. His bones were dug up for the ceremony.
0d8aN TIL In 1942, a 60-foot-long (18 m) 1000-ton ship was built out of ice and sawdust in hopes to be an aircraft carrier
Bg4Bx TIL that in 2003, a 14-year-old boy in Manchester, England, created fake online personas to manipulate his friend into attempting to murder him, resulting in the UK's first conviction for inciting your own murder.
4dDR TIL the word Mortgage is a French Law term meaning “death pledge”.
XEr9R TIL Muammar Qaddafi was obsessed with Secretary of State, Condolezza Rice. During one visit he showed her a video with photos of her with various people, set to a song composed just for her called ‘Black Flower in the White House.’ When his house was raided a scrapbook of her pictures was found.