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TIL Despite being a devout Christian, Chuck Norris has an illegitimate daughter from an affair during his first marriage and he didn't meet her until she was 26 years old.

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9LDp TIL that in 1977, a boycott was launched against Nestlé when it was found that they were giving free samples of baby formula to new mothers in Africa and then charging for it as soon as they were unable to switch back to breastfeeding. This caused high infant mortality and development problems.
VMaMm TIL the Vietnamese word for honey, "mật ông," is widely accepted by linguists to be related to the English word "mead," as the Vietnamese word came from Chinese, which in turn, got it from the now-extinct Indo-European Tocharian language once spoken in present-day NW China.
apjN TIL that “jiggawatt” is an obscure but acceptable pronunciation for “gigawatt”, which makes its use in the movie “Back to the Future” legitimate. Producer Bob Gale said he had thought it was pronounced this way because this was how a scientific advisor on the film pronounced it.
QbRe TIL of Primitive Baptist Universalists, a branch of Baptists found in Appalachia known as “No Hellers” due “to their belief that Hell is actually experienced in this lifetime”.
rNBXe TIL Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin singer) had three children with his wife (at the time) Maureen Wilson before divorcing in 1983 and then had a child with Maureen's sister Shirley Wilson. Making his kids both cousins and siblings.