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TIL: Eggo waffles were originally called “Froffles”. “Eggo” was a name people began using to describe the egg-y taste, and the company eventually adopted the name.

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AN0YB TIL Lord Lyndhurst’s Act (1835) prohibited marriage to your dead wife's sister. This was repealed by the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act (1907) [United Kingdom]
0wgPj TIL that in 1944, the British hatched a plan to assassinate Hitler – Operation Foxley. Many, including Churchill approved of the plan. It never went through though because Hitler was an awful military strategist, and there was fear that whoever replaced him would be more adept at winning the war.
b6Q54 TIL the movie Boyhood (2014) was filmed from 2002 to 2013 and began filming without a completed script, with only basic plot points and the ending written initially. Director Richard Linklater developed the script throughout production and incorporated changes he saw in the actors into the script.
Y7dbW TIL that Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), a Scottish child writer and poet admired by Robert Louis Stevenson, is notable for a diary she kept during the last 18 months of her life. She died of meningitis a month short of her ninth birthday. Her manuscripts are held in the National Library of Scotland.
l7NxG TIL not only does Nolan Ryan hold the record for most no-hitters thrown in Major League Baseball (7), he's also tied for the record for most one-hit games thrown by a pitcher with 12.