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TIL House of Pain is not actually from Boston but rather LA.

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69QlY TIL pistachios are not nuts? They look like them but they were not botanically classified as such.
4Z4J TIL that when the Greek ships reached the beach of Troy, no one would jump ashore, since there was a prophecy that the first Greek to jump on Trojan soil would die. Odysseus tossed his shield on the shore and jumped on his shield so the person who was tricked into following him would die instead
OmVg TIL Pat Riley, former NBA player and now NBA executive with the Miami Heat, trademarked the word “Three-Peat” in 1988. When the Chicago Bulls won three straight championships in the 1990s, he was paid $300,000 dollars in royalties.
aw1Oy TIL that the tiny extra hole in coffee lids allows air to flow into the container so that when you drink, the coffee flows out in an even and gentle stream for a pleasant drinking experience.
rNMNW TIL the old Danish criteria for common law marriage was that" If anyone has a mistress in his home for three winters and obviously sleeps with her, and she commands lock and key and obviously eats and drinks with him, then she shall be his wife and rightful lady of the house."