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LAAZ TIL the Mongolian idiom used when someone sneezes: бурхан оршоо бутын чинээ сахал урга. (Translated as “God bless you and may your moustache grow like brushwood.”)
LkWZV TIL in 1986, when a five-year-old boy fell into a gorilla cage, the giant male gorilla named Jambo stood between the unconscious boy and the other hungry pack of apes saving his life. Later he even stroked his hair.
VMPY4 TIL over 8,000 pieces of music were secretly created in Nazi concentration camps; including symphonies, operas, and songs scribbled on everything from food wrappings to potato sacks. One prisoner composed an entire symphony on toilet paper using the charcoal given to him as dysentery medicine.
NXdN6 TIL about Chris Lemons, a saturation diver that survived 35 minutes without oxygen at almost 300 feet below the North Sea.
GbnG TIL that up until 1983, all caddies in the Masters Tournament were black. Due to the clubs tradition.