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TIL Louis Armstrong loved food so much that he sometimes signed his letters "Soul Foodly Yours." and more often: "Red Beans & Ricely Yours,"

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jwwv TIL that having the prefix “Fitz” in your surname once meant that you may have been the bastard son of Royalty.
9dLB TIL during the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. “Plague Doctors” therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
aMny TIL In the UK, accents change noticeably about every 25 miles (40km).
M7b7a TIL tattooing was a fad among Victorian aristocrats, especially women. They hid their ink, since it was still associated with criminals. King Edward VII, his sons, and Winston Churchill's mother all had tats. The fad spread to the US, where one paper said ~75% of upper class women were tattooed.
b6J47 TIL: Yankee Stadium once had three bronze plaques mounted on blocks of granite commemorating Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins sitting just in front of a flagpole with the US flag in center field - in the field of play.