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TIL Mr. Clean’s first name is Veritably

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BeXK TIL blind people have a hard time drawing because they interpret the world as three-dimensional and struggle to portray it as two-dimensional.
m1g9P TIL in uk Robert Meiklem experienced an uncanny premonition while watching a transplant documentary. He felt that Colin Gray possessed the heart of his late son, Robbie, who died by suicide in September 2023. After reaching out and meeting, Robert confirmed his intuition listening to Robbie’s heart
wLBXW TIL The Irish word for spam email is turscar. Originally, the word was used to refer to dead seaweed that was washed up on the tide.
jN4VN TIL that "God bless you" originated in Rome when the bubonic plague was ravaging Europe. Sneezing was one the plague's main symptoms, and it is believed that Pope Gregory I suggested that a tiny prayer in the form of saying, "God bless you" after a sneeze would protect the person from death.
7rQJb TIL about the Holomodor, a man-made famine in 1930s Ukraine that killed up to 12 million ethnic Ukrainians. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement.