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TIL April Fools day in French is “Poisson d'Avril” (literally fish of April) and children try to stick a crudely drawn fish on each others back in secrecy.

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0wKYR TIL legal scholars use the terms malum prohibitum and malum in se to distinguish between offences which are legally or morally forbidden. The former is wrong simply for rules prohibiting them whilst the latter is wrong as it is seen as an innately immoral act.
R7rl4 TIL inoculation was introduced to America in 1706 by an West African slave named Onesimus, who taught his owner Cotton Mather how his parents inoculated him as a child. in 1721, Mather used this method to successfully combat a smallpox outbreak in Boston.
QNKg9 TIL there's no town Sweet Home, Alabama, but there is a Sweet Home, Oregon
MeLXB TIL that the trope of pirates saying "ARRR" was popularised by actor Robert Newton who played Long John Silver in the 1950 Disney film. In Treasure Island, Long John Silver is from the west country and so Newton took slang from the region and exaggerated it. "ooh arr" means "yes"
x6Peg TIL: Tom Cruise’s performance in Top Gun led to him being selected over Michael J. Fox as the model for Disney’s Aladdin (1992).