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TIL Starbucks is named after the first mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby-Dick

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a8eko TIL Rudyard Kipling's 1889 short story was the first to use 'the world's oldest profession' to describe prostitution.
d007 TIL Joan of Arc was granted a retrial by the church and declared innocent in 1456. Unfortunately, that was 25 years after she was burned at the stake.
QNEXk TIL In March 2021 Facebook suddenly removed the page for Bitche, the capital of Pays de Bitche, France. After complaints Facebook restored the page and apologized to the town.
epk7L TIL Microsoft Excel observes the fictional date 29 February 1900 in order to maintain compatibility with older versions of Lotus 1-2-3, another spreadsheet program
69JQ TIL that in Irish mythology, there is a story of a god divinely conceiving a child in a newlywed virgin’s belly. The women says “screw that,” aborts the child, then goes and gets pregnant with her husband’s child; the 100% human baby goes on to be a great hero.