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TIL that the Jack in Monterey Jack cheese was a salesman of cheese made by monks in Monterey

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1m6r TIL a time capsule was buried in Sir Frederick Banting Square, on the scientist’s 100th birthday, Nov. 14, 1991. Banting was part of a team that received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the isolation of insulin. The time capsule will be opened once a cure for diabetes has been found.
xpr5 TIL Kars4Kids, the car donation non-profit famous for its radio jingle, donates 100% of its proceeds exclusively to Jewish causes, including Jewish education and summer camps. It has been repeatedly fined for hiding this fact and for misleading its donors.
XEgVX TIL When buttons were invented in the 13th century, wealthy women did not dress themselves — their lady’s maid did. As most people are right-handed, it was easier for maids to fasten with the buttons on the left. And that's why men's and women's buttons are on opposite sides.
N7nWb TIL When Fat'h Ali became the Shah of Persia in 1797 he read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica and changed his title to "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica".
AGyl TIL the United States has been in a declared state of national emergency since 1933, and is currently under 30 national emergencies including 9/11, the Iranian hostage crisis and Colombian drug trafficking.