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TIL that Waffles get their name from the same source as Wafers, and modern waffle irons are descended from tools for making communion wafers.

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dDkld TIL about Deuteria, wife of Merovingian King Theudebert I, who had a daughter so beautiful, she killed her out of fear Theudebert would leave her for her daughter.
x68vg TIL in late 1870 there was a naval battle near Havanna between a French and a German ship. It was the only naval fight of the Franco-Prussian War.
gQ9b TIL to get women to smoke cigarettes in the 1920s, tobacco companies devised a campaign of equating cigarettes as “torches of freedom.” The campaign helped women smoking jump from 5% in 1923 to 18.1% in 1935.
VpBk TIL Bill Murray does not have an agent or a manager. Instead he has a number to call and pitch him an idea via the voice mail. If he likes it he will call you back. The phone number is impossible to find. The only people who know it are people who already have worked with him.
pp1N TIL Meerkats are the most murderous known mammal, with almost 20% of meerkats being killed by one of their own. The average among all mammals is just 0.3%.