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TIL celebrity chef Jamie Oliver named his children "Poppy Honey Rosie" "Daisy Boo Pamela" "Petal Blossom Rainbow" "Buddy Bear Maurice" and "River Rocket Blue Dallas"

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QJLma TIL that the earth was known to be spherical by most European scholars since the 3rd century bc
R54RQ TIL of Cordell Jackson, who (among other things) is thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label.
WkkmY Maybe, but no one has ever proved it.
GY9bJ TIL about the Misericorde - the 'Mercy Knife', which was a long narrow dagger used for killing wounded soldiers at the end of a battle. It was considered better than dying in pain from infection or from wounds which were not instantly fatal.
9w0ZD TIL in 1874, the Freedman’s Savings Bank, created to help African Americans build wealth, collapsed due to mismanagement and fraud. Over 60,000 Black Americans lost about $3M in savings, devastating trust in financial institutions and crippling Black economic progress many decades.