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TIL The word “nice” used to mean “simple and foolish” as well as “cowardly and effeminate.” It comes from the Latin “nescire,” meaning “to be ignorant.”

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wLexo TIL that in 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote about germs, describing "minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which...enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases." The germ theory of disease would not be accepted widely for another 1,900 years.
ZpElY TIL Prosecutors at the trial of Andreas Hofer, leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against Napoleon's forces in 1809, were struggling with deciding on how to sentence him until they received a note from Napoleon's viceroy: it said "give him a fair trial, then shoot him"
Egp57 TIL that most people prefer AI-generated poetry to poetry made by humans
4kvN6 TIL that hard-shell tacos were invented in the US by Mexican-Americans. After noticing how popular they were in San Bernardino, Glen Bell was taught how to make the shells and then opened a taco stand there in 1951 that became the first Taco Bell.