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TIL that Christmas for children in Medieval England meant getting extra beatings so as to ‘remind them of Herod’s cruelty’ instead of getting presents

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epWNJ TIL that a Milkshake Duck is a person who gains popularity on social media for some positive or charming trait but is later revealed to have a distasteful history or to engage in offensive behavior.
RKK8 TIL that following the attacks on 9/11, a Masai tribe in Kenya offered 14 cows as an aid gift to the United States.
VBgKG TIL The ancient Greeks may have based their mythological monsters off fossilised dinosaurs they discovered
RBZ1 TIL Adolf Hitler kept a life-sized portrait of Henry Ford next to his desk
b9OYj TIL The bible teaches "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself" Leviticus 19:33