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TIL “mantra” is Sanskrit: man (think) tra (tool) -> “thinking tool”

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LkbMr TIL since 1922, the British Royal Horticultural Society has given out an annual Award of Garden Merit to the plant or crop which performs best under UK growing conditions.
e0PRL TIL Mona Lisa died from The Plague
bjk9 TIL that the MLB away uniforms are grey for a reason. At the turn of the century the away teams didn’t normally have access to laundry facilities on the road, thus stains were not noticeable on the darker grey uniforms as opposed to the white uniforms worn by the home team.
bEEN TIL: In the Olympics of 67 A.D., Emperor Nero competed in the 4-horse chariot races with a 10-horse team, only to be thrown from his chariot. He didn’t finish the race but he was still proclaimed the winner on the grounds that he would have won had he been able to complete the race.
9RJm TIL As an experiment, a copy of Casablanca’s screenplay was submitted to 217 agencies under the title “Everybody Comes to Rick’s”. Out of the 85 that read it, only 8 recognized it specifically as Casablanca, and only 3 declared it as commercially viable.