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TIL: In Old English, males were referred to as, “wer” and the word, “man” meant strictly humankind.

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Ma60 TIL Italian Emma Morano, who is 117 years old, is the last living person born in the 1800s (Nov. 29, 1899)
g87A TIL that the CIA secretly spiked the bread from a bakery in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit with enormous quantities of LSD as part of its cold war mind-control experiments.
awrOb TIL in World War 2, German POWs in America were shocked by how African Americans were treated. This was due to the prisoners working alongside them in the fields, allowing them to become closer over their shared labour.
X0OvE TIL that the name of the orchid comes from the Greek word for testicle, "ὄρχις", because of the shape of the twin tubers in some plants of the genus Orchis. This resemblance is also why the Middle English word for certain orchids was "bollockwort", from "bollock" (testicle) and "wort" (plant).
6E1ZW TIL California takes Jury Duty seriously (up to $1500 or jail time)