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TIL Marylin Monroe's real name is Norma Jeane Mortenson

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jNaNp TIL that campfire smoke always follows me because when I stand in front of it, it blocks air flow and the smoke comes my way (Iwas always curious if I was just unlucky
4X80R TIL Nero’s Golden Palace was rediscovered during the Renaissance, when a young man tripped, fell down a hole, and found himself in the cavernous, subterranean rooms of Nero’s palace.
wL1K7 TIL about Mary the Jewess, one of the first alchemical writers, living between the first and third centuries AD. She is credited with the invention of several kinds of chemical apparatus and is considered to be the first true alchemist of the Western world.