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TIL John Cleese’s family’s surname was Cheese, until his father changed their surname to Cleese before signing up for the army in World War 1.

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w1l6 TIL King James IV put twin babies on an island to see if the children would speak the language of Eden. Children developed a communication method but the experiment failed because no one else knew what language of Eden sounded like.
LWKv TIL a mysterious lady dressed with a headscarf like a Russian grandma, the Babushka Lady, was seen at the JFK assassination taking pictures of the event, and the FBI publicly asked for her to step forward with any pictures she took but she never came forward
QNL1k TIL human post-reproductive longevity is also an extreme and distinctively human evolutionary trait
VlDk TIL that 10 Syrian Pound coins are so similar to Norway’s 20 krone coins in weight that vending machines cannot tell the difference. Posten Norge had to close many of their coin-to-cash machines because of this. 20 krone is worth about 45 times more than 10 SP.
dVE TIL Christmas is often spelled Xmas because the Greek letter Chi (χ) is used to abbreviate the name Christ.