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TIL that the expression "wearing your heart on your sleeve" comes from the Middle Ages where people would litterally pin the name of their loved one on their sleeve for all to see.

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gMMAL TIL That Russian criminal gang tattoos all have a meaning/purpose, such as Stalin across vital organs in the belief a firing squad would not shoot that image.
4ba TIL there is no such thing as canola, and the name canola comes from Canadian Oil Low Acid.
wLbQY TIL that there's a company in the UK that takes wet coffee waste and turns it into things like coffee flavouring, and bio-fuel logs and pellets
DEoe TIL Gao Chai, a disciple of Confucius, served as a judge and once condemned a criminal to getting his foot cut off. When he was later fleeing the state, the same man saved his life.
vlEB TIL in a private cemetery in Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.