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TIL Vanilla Beans Don’t All Taste Like Vanilla

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epOmb TIL the Tony awards were named after a woman. Antoinette "Tony" Perry was an actress, producer, and theater director who co-founded the American Theatre Wing, which entertained soldiers during World War 2. After her death the Tony Awards were created in her honor.
jNg0R TIL in 1972 Tonie Nathan was the first woman to receive an electoral vote in a US presidential election.
oLVL TIL That in a 1999 poll of guitarists, Noel Gallagher was voted the most overrated guitarist of the millenium, which was the award he most enjoyed receiving.
1aAPO TIL Transgender communities in India speak a secret language thought to have originated more than 200 years ago.
wLvR8 TIL "area codes" for telephone numbers were originally called "STD codes"