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TIL that Quakers call the months of the year and days of the week by number only, in order to avoid using names of pagan deities.

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nXn7 TIL the Norwegians have their government outgunned by 16:1
xVnYw TIL Girl Guides were used for espionage in the first world war. Boy Scouts were also used at the start, but they were too talkative and boisterous.
NXxbP TIL about Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, inventor of the Happy Meal. She was the daughter of the Chilean embassador to Guatemala. Her husband owned the first McDonalds in Guatemala, and she went to study in the Hamburger University.
da07 TIL actress and legendary beauty Lana Turner was discovered at 17 by a talent agent at a drugstore where she was having a coke and skipping class. She was immediately signed to make her first movie.
5VD5n TIL that sage (Salvia officinalis) and rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) are closely related to the hallucinogenic drug salvia (Salvia divinorum).